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The Solar System

Question 6 • AZ-Earth and Space Science A (SC301)

Which event took place during the Copernican revolution, when most people started to believe in a heliocentric model of the solar system?

Answer
A
Aristotle developed his model of the solar system.
B
Copernicus rediscovered Aristarchus’s heliocentric model.
C
Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
D
Newton’s theories of gravity were dismissed and considered invalid.

Explanation

Kepler developed his laws of planetary motion during the Copernican revolution, helping support the heliocentric model by describing how planets orbit the Sun. Aristotle’s model was geocentric, and Copernicus proposed a heliocentric model rather than simply rediscovering Aristarchus’s. Newton’s theories came later and were not dismissed as invalid.

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