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 John Lord
The heliocentric system, thus regarding the sun as the central orb, degraded the earth to a very subordinate rank, making her only one of a company of six revolving bodies.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
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
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