Nicolaus Copernicus — "Therefore, I think that the earth is not the center of the universe, but rather …"
Therefore, I think that the earth is not the center of the universe, but rather the sun.
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This is a simplification. He argued for the Sun as the center of the planetary system, not explicitly the 'universe' in the modern cosmological sense.
Date: 1543
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