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Aristarchus of Samos (circa. 300- 250BC), a Greek Astronomer and Mathematician is belived to be the first astronomer who proposed that sun is the center of the universe (Heliocentric). but the idea did not begin to gain general acceptance until it was proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus 1543.

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