Who created a model of the solar system in which all the planets orbit the sun?
Although many early cosmologists such as Aristarchus of Samos speculated about the motion of the Earth around a stationary Sun, it was not until the 16th century that Copernicus presented a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system, which was later elaborated by Kepler and defended by Galileo, becoming the center of a major religious dispute