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Adam Smith is considered as the father of the economy. He is known as the most influential thinker in the field of economics. In 1759, he published his first book entitled The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
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I suspect the answer you're looking for is The Articles of Confederation.
They were the first 'modern' (well, medieval) scientists to come up with the "heliocentric" view of the universe: the concept that the Earth revolves around the Sun and is not the center of the Universe itself. It should be mentioned that ancient Greek scientist had already discovered that some 1,500 years earlier, but their writings had been more or less forgotten by then. Well, not quite: it was much later discovered that Copernicus referred specifically to those earlier Greek findings in the draft of his book, but left it out in the final text.
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Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans were the first to assert that mathematical harmony could be found in the universe's underlying structures. They believed that numbers and mathematical relationships were at the core of all aspects of the universe, which they called the harmony of the spheres.
Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the concept of a sun-centred universe in the 16th century.
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The first that we know of was Aristarchus of Samos, about 2400 years ago. His ideas were not widely accepted, and Aristotle's concept of an Earth-centered universe was adopted.
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