heliocentric system

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This explained the motion of the planets in the heavens with incredible accuracy; no longer could astronomers object that the heliocentric system was inferior to the geocentric one.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Despite the church’s objections, Kepler’s heliocentric system would prevail eventually, because Kepler was right and Aristotle was wrong.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

But this was no heliocentric system, since the sun moved like the earth, in a circle around the central fire.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

A passage in book viii. contains a very clear statement of the heliocentric system of astronomy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

Scarcely any great work was ever so exclusively the work of one man as was the heliocentric system the work of the retiring sage of Frauenburg.

From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon