Question

What did Nicolaus Copernicus base his heliocentric theory on?

Answer 1

Nicolas Copernicus's heliocentric theory based on fixed position of Sun as the centre of solar system.

It states that Sun is stable (non moving) and it is the centre of Solar system around which other planet revolves.

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Answer 2

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Nicolaus Copernicus was an astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system, that the planets orbit around the Sun; that Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis; and that very slow changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes...