Who was the first person known to have postulated the theory that the Earth goes round the Sun?
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"Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was a European astronomer who formulated the first explicitly heliocentric model of the solar system" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus
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According to the textbook from which I used to teach an introductory astronomy course, the first person to propose that Earth went around the sun was Pythagoras (circa 500 B.C.) However, he was eventually talked out of this idea.
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Some say it was known when the Old Testament was written: http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/2178
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"The earliest traces of a counter-intuitive idea that it is the Earth that is actually moving and the Sun that is at the centre of the solar system (hence the concept of heliocentrism) is found in several Vedic Sanskrit texts written in ancient India. Yajnavalkya (c. 9th–8th century BC) recognized that the Earth is spherical and believed that the Sun was "the centre of the spheres" as described in the Vedas at the time." "He recognized that the Sun was much larger than the Earth, which would have influenced this early heliocentric concept." Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism
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