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Whose theory suggested that the Earth is the centre of the universe?

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Ptolemy
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Bacon
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Descartes
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Copernicus
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Solution

The correct option is A Ptolemy
It was initially believed that earth was the center of the universe following the Geocentric theory of Greek scholar Ptolemy.

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