The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves round the sun was

The scientist who first discovered that the earth revolves round the sun was Copernicus. Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun. This is called the heliocentric, or Sun-centered, system.