Nicolaus Copernicus established a "heliocentric" theory of the universe in the early sixteenth century, which advanced the then-revolutionary notion of what?

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Copernicus proposed that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of the solar system and that the planets, including the earth, revolved around it in circular orbits. This was a major departure from the previously accepted geocentric theory, which held that the earth was at the center of the universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus Established a "Heliocentric" Theory of the Universe in the Early