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    Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center...
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    Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center...
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    Yajnavalkya's theory of heliocentrism is the heliocentric model of the Solar System mentioned in the Vedic text Shatapatha Brahmana. It was proposed by...
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    to the two-stage transition from full geocentrism to full heliocentrism via geo-heliocentrism.[citation needed] In 1610, Galileo also observed the planet...
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    treating heliocentrism as a merely hypothetical phenomenon and not a physically real one. Further on he says that interpreting heliocentrism as physically...
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    presentation of the heliocentric model in Renaissance scholarship. The idea of heliocentrism is much older; it can be traced to Aristarchus of Samos, a Hellenistic...
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    Cleanthes, who is head of the Stoics, a sun worshipper, and opposed to heliocentrism. In the manuscript of Plutarch's text, Aristarchus says Cleanthes should...
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    -a-darn-good-one-too/ Eastwood, B. S. (1992-11-01). "Heraclides and Heliocentrism – Texts Diagrams and Interpretations". Journal for the History of Astronomy...
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    second edition in 1550. Another Protestant theologian who disparaged heliocentrism on scriptural grounds was John Owen. In a passing remark in an essay...
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    correct novel theories such as William Gilbert's magnetism, Copernicus's heliocentrism, and Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Bacon first described the experimental...
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    from Earth, which in turn is more consistent with geocentrism than heliocentrism. (In fact, Venus' luminous consistency is due to any loss of light caused...
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    rotate also in a counterclockwise direction about their respective axes. Heliocentrism is the scientific model that first placed the Sun at the center of the...
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    Publications, 2009, p.25, ISBN 978-81-7434-480-9 The concept of Indian heliocentrism has been advocated by B. L. van der Waerden, Das heliozentrische System...
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    to have developed a mathematically predictive heliocentric system. Heliocentrism did not triumph immediately over geocentrism, but the work of Copernicus...
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    Gilbert (1544–1603) Heliocentric, indefinitely extended Copernican heliocentrism, but he rejects the idea of a limiting sphere of the fixed stars for...
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    discovered Solar System bodies. Earth itself was recognized as a planet when heliocentrism supplanted geocentrism during the 16th and 17th centuries. With the...
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    worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of Copernican heliocentrism with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system, and devised...
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    incompatible truths correspond to two different ways of describing the world: heliocentrism and geocentrism. Goodman terms such descriptions "world versions". He...
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    century, new scientific concepts in astronomy and physics (such as heliocentrism and Newtonian mechanics) called astrology into question. Astrology thus...
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    1007/978-3-031-07923-8. ISBN 978-3-031-07922-1. Grosu, Emanuel (2019). "The Heliocentrism of the Ancient: Between Geometry and Physics". Hermeneia. 23: 53–61...
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    referred to as the Ptolemy of his time. He was a supporter of Copernican heliocentrism, the astronomical model which positioned the Sun at the center of the...
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    the discoveries they made following the invention of the telescope. Heliocentrism is the idea that the sun is the center of the universe, and all the...
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  • observations) is often used to mark the beginning of the Scientific Revolution. Heliocentrism was resisted by the Catholic Church because it contradicted the Bible;...
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    Orbiter Mission in 2013. Astrodynamics Earth's orbit Geocentric orbit Heliocentrism List of artificial objects in heliocentric orbit List of orbits Low-energy...
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    17th century included the invention of the telescope and acceptance of heliocentrism. 18th century scholars continued to refine Newton's theory of gravitation...
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  • Bible, see also List of plants in the Bible Geocentric model, see also Heliocentrism Geomancy Geomantic figures Ghouls Ghost hunting Glossolalia, see Speaking...
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    the third century BC, and later adopted by Seleucus of Seleucia (see Heliocentrism). This view was developed in a more detailed mathematical model of a...
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  • Dialogue. In 1758 the general prohibition against works advocating heliocentrism was removed from the Index of prohibited books, although the specific...
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    concerning Knowledge of the Heavens, he also discussed the possibility of heliocentrism. The city is one of the key tourism sites in Iran, its cultural heritage...
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  • the outbreak of the German Peasants' War and the rise of Copernican heliocentrism. He cited Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, which also takes place...
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