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heliocentric system: see Copernican system Copernican system, first modern European theory of planetary motion that was heliocentric, i.e., that placed the sun motionless at the center of the solar system with all the planets, including the earth, revolving around it. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| What I propose is a much simpler, heliocentric system, with the sun as center. Although Copernicus had provided a new heliocentric system of the world in 1543, the dominant interpretation of his work in Northern Europe was developed by the students and colleagues of Philipp Melanchthon at the University of Wittenberg. Anyone was free to write on the heliocentric system as a hypothesis and to seek an irrefutable mathematical or physical proof of the mobility of the earth. |
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