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

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)

Then they were observed not as the experiences of individuals but as instances of planetary order in a heliocentric system.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

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