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Q: Who was the first 16th century scholar to propose the heliocentric theory?
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Which statement describes the controversy by Galileo's heliocentric theory?

Galileo did not propose a heliocentric theory, he agreed with Copernicus and his heliocentric theory. The Catholic church, at the time, disagreed and they held a huge amount of power and put him on trial.


What did copernicus descover?

Copernicus was the first to propose the Heliocentric theory, the correct theory that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the solar system.


What time period does the heliocentric theory come from?

Copernicus created the theory in the 16th century


In 1543 what did Copernicus propose?

Luke roudabush The Heliocentric Theory. - which is the idea that the stars, the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.


Who formulated the heliocentric theory?

copernicus coined the heliocentric theory...


Who was Galileo and what did he do How did he prove the heliocentric theory?

He was an Italian scientist of the 17th century. He did not prove the heliocentric theory. But everyone accepts the heliocentric principle now, after it was proved right; but that happened long after Galileo's time, after new scientific discoveries in the latter half of the 1600s.


What is Copernicus' heliocentric theory?

The heliocentric theory is the theory that the sun is the center of the universe, not the earth.


What is a good sentence with the word heliocentric theory?

The Vatican did not believe in heliocentric theory for a long time.


The heliocentric theory challenged the?

Geocentric theory


the heliocentric theory challenged the?

Geocentric theory


Was brane's theory geocentric or heliocentric?

Neither, The Geocentric theory was created by a student of 'Plato's' by the name of Ptolemy. The Heliocentric theory was by Copernicus.


How did the Heliocentric Theory impact the world?

The Geocentric Theory is about how everything revolves and the Earth and the Heliocentric Theory is how everthing revolves around the Sun.