In astronomy, the geocentric model (also known as geocentrism, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system) is a superseded description of the...

modified by epicycles, and at uniform speeds. The Copernican model displaced the geocentric model of Ptolemy that had prevailed for centuries, which had placed...

the 2nd century AD the predominant model, which would be inherited by medieval astronomy, was the geocentric model described in Ptolemy's Almagest. The...

endorse the outdated geocentric model, which claims that Earth is stationary at the center of the universe. Advocates of Geocentric creationism believe...

responsible for the conception of the first mechanical model of the world, which is outlined by a geocentric model. He postulated that the Earth was at the center...

century BC Greece, philosophers developed the geocentric model, based on astronomical observation; this model proposed that the center of the Universe lies...

Mobile (Latin: "first movable") was the outermost moving sphere in the geocentric model of the universe. The concept was introduced by Ptolemy to account for...

from the Earth when it was on the Earth-side of the Sun. In Ptolemy's geocentric model, it was impossible for any of the planets' orbits to intersect the...

the Kerala school of astronomy and mathematics. It is conceptually a geocentric model, or more precisely geoheliocentric: the Earth is at the centre of the...

century, the terms were modified by Copernicus, who rejected Ptolemy's geocentric model, to distinguish a planet's orbit's size in relation to the Earth's...

most part used to justify the geocentric model, with the exception of Copernicus' cosmos, the deferent and epicycle model was favored over the heliocentric...

heuristic in the development of theoretical models rather than as a rigorous arbiter between candidate models. The phrase Occam's razor did not appear until...

earliest sphere-centric models of the planet systems, based on his background as a mathematician. Eudoxus's model was geocentric, with the Earth being a...

of the universe in much the same way as Ptolemy had presented his geocentric model in the second century. This "Copernican Revolution" resolved the issue...

the axis of rotation of the planetary spheres within the classical geocentric model of the cosmos. In 20th-century comparative mythology, the term axis...

Pythagoreanism. Ancient heliocentrism was, however, eclipsed by the geocentric model presented by Ptolemy in the Almagest and accepted in Aristotelianism...

trying to perfect the geocentric model eventually using the heliocentric model of the Solar System. The use of the Solar System model began as a resource...

Earth being round and not flat. The cosmos was first structured in a geocentric model that considered that the sun and all other celestial bodies revolve...

Galileo to continue his studies in search for evidence and use the geocentric model as a theoretical device. That same year Paul V assured Galileo that...

compared it with the astronomical teachings of Quran. A rejector of the geocentric model and the Aristotelian notions of a single universe revolving around...

Church promoted his work, which included the only mathematically sound geocentric model of the Solar System, and unlike most Greek mathematicians, Ptolemy's...

primordial watery abyss Primum Mobile – Outermost moving sphere in the geocentric model of the universe Sky deity – Deity associated with the sky Wuji – The...

religions built around the geocentric model, which prevailed until astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus formulated his heliocentric model in the 16th century. Architect...

of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canonized a geocentric model of the Universe that was accepted for more than 1,200 years from its...

period include the replacement of the geocentric model of the Solar System with the heliocentric Copernican model, the laws governing the motion of planetary...

was among the first observations to clearly contradict the Ptolemaic geocentric model that the Solar System was concentric and centred on Earth. The 1631...

necessarily have to be useful, accurate, or factual. As an example, the geocentric model was a widely accepted concept despite its inaccuracies and has since...

formulated a heliocentric model of the Solar System, stating that the planets revolve around the Sun, instead of the geocentric model where the planets and...

The Hindu calendar is based on a geocentric model of the Solar System. A geocentric model describes the Solar System as seen by an observer on the surface...

as their form (see also Metaphysics, bk. XII). Aristotle proposed a geocentric model of the universe in De Caelo. The Earth is the center of motion of the...