heliocentric system
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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
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
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
The old geocentric system once shaken, the way was gradually smoothed for the heliocentric system, which Copernicus, still hampered by tradition, did not quite reach.
From Kepler by Walter W. (Walter William) Bryant
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 Simon Newcomb
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