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 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03 Ancient Achievements by Lord, John

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 Bryant, Walter W. (Walter William)

It has always seemed to me that the real significance of the heliocentric system lies in the greatness of this conception rather than in the fact of the discovery itself.

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