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Who was the first modern astronomer to formally refute the geocentric view that 'Earth is the center of the universe' by proposing a heliocentric model?

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1Giordano Bruno
2Johannes Kepler
3Nicolaus Copernicus✓
4Galileo Galilei

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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