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geocentric
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geocentric
1. having the earth at its centre
2. measured from or relating to the centre of the earth

geocentric [¦jē·ō¦sen·trik]
(astronomy)
Relative to the earth as a center; that is measured from the center of the earth.


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His sensible answer is that whereas Riccioli may have had doubts concerning geocentrism, he was neither an open nor a secret Copernican.
He explained that the anthropomorphism behind the strong anthropic principle is a remnant of the geocentrism that dominated civilized thought from the time of Ptolemy to that of Copernicus and Galileo.
One cannot claim a definitive conversion of Campanella to Copernicanism nor a definitive abandonment of geocentrism.
 
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