Copernican system

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Kepler’s three laws provide a precise geometric description of planetary motion within the framework of the Copernican system.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Although the Copernican system was largely correct to place the Sun at the center of all planetary motion, the model still gave inaccurate predictions for planetary positions.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Fifty-five years later, Isaac Newton’s great work, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, further reinforced the coherence of the Copernican system, with laws of mechanics and gravity that reinforced the model.

From Forbes • Sep. 18, 2014

Although he had no solid proofs of the motion of the Earth, Galileo argued persuasively, making it intellectually respectable to believe in the Copernican system.

From Forbes • Sep. 18, 2014

He knew the Copernican system could work only if the cosmos was much bigger than the Ptolemaics had imagined, but he did not correct his father’s figures for the dimensions of the universe.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton