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Heliocentric

adjective
1.
Having the sun as the center.



Related search:
heliocentric parallax


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"Heliocentric" Quotes from Famous Books



... apparent motion of each planet in the epicycle was represented by a motion of the earth around the sun, and the problem of correcting the position of the planet on account of the epicycle was reduced to finding its geocentric from its heliocentric position. This was the greatest step ever taken in theoretical astronomy, yet it was but a single step. So far as the materials were concerned and the mode of representing the planetary motions, no other radical advance ...
— Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science • Simon Newcomb


Words linked to "Heliocentric" :   Copernican, geocentric, heliocentric parallax


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