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    Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center...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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    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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    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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    -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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    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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    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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