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The earliest record of a suggestion that the Earth revolves around the Sun was by the Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and it took another 1600 years before the Polish monk Nicolas Copernicus reintroduced the idea.

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