Who Proposed a Heliocentric Theory to Explain the Movement of the Heavenly

question 20

Multiple Choice

Who proposed a heliocentric theory to explain the movement of the heavenly bodies?

• A) Voltaire
• B) Galileo Galilei
• C) Nicolaus Copernicus
• D) Ptolemy
• E) Johannes Kepler

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