Solar system?

who proposed a sun centered solar system?
Answers:
Copernicus was the first, I infer. Though a Greek, whose name escapes me for the moment, may enjoy proposed it sooner.
It was Galileo who come up with the proposal that our Sun is center of the Universe.
The Greek astronomer Aristarchus was the first to propose this, 1500 years earlier Copernicus did.
Nicolas Copernicus
(1473-1543)


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