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heliocentric

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heliocentric [¦hē·lē·ō¦sen·trik]
(astronomy)
Relative to the sun as a center.


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Paul Weller, formerly of The Jam, asked him to work with hi on the 2000 album Heliocentric, which triggered a renewal of work with several musicians of the day.
Heraclides' contributions are assessed from his dialogues on topics including pleasure, the soul, a heliocentric theory of the Earth's rotation around the sun, a case study "On the Woman Who Stopped Breathing," his Homeric Solutions, and musical history.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe.
 
 
 
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