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The "Scientific Revolution" of the 16th and 17th centuries marked a shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric model of the universe. Who was a key figure in this shift?
A. Galileo Galilei
B. Isaac Newton
C. Johannes Kepler
D. Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the heliocentric model of the universe.

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