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Dvipa (927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

terminology is also used to refer to the seven regions of the cosmos. In the geocentric model of Hinduism, the seven dvipas are present around Mount Meru, which

Axis mundi (3,268 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the axis of rotation of the planetary spheres within the classical geocentric model of the cosmos. In 20th-century comparative mythology, the term axis

Earth's orbit (1,860 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of the universe in much the same way as Ptolemy had presented his geocentric model in the second century. This "Copernican Revolution" resolved the issue

Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (4,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

comparing Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric system model with Ptolemy's geocentric model. Written in Italian, it was translated into Latin as Systema cosmicum

Bartolomeu Velho (145 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Original - Figure of the celestial bodies - Illustration of the Ptolemaic geocentric model of the Universe by Bartolomeu Velho. Taken from Cosmographia (Bibilotèque

Paul Wittich (1,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published in his 1613 Letters on Sunspots, refuted the Ptolemaic geocentric model, which implied they are only crescents in conjunction, just as in opposition

Sunrise (1,773 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

caused many cultures to have mythologies and religions built around the geocentric model, which prevailed until astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus formulated his

350 BC (509 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Also he discusses logical reasoning in Organon. Plato proposes a geocentric model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere

Apparent retrograde motion (1,566 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

first place: 'Planet' comes from the Greek word for 'wanderer'. In the geocentric model of the Solar System proposed by Apollonius in the third century BCE

Astronomical clock (6,807 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Astronomical clocks usually represent the Solar System using the geocentric model. The center of the dial is often marked with a disc or sphere representing

Astrology and astronomy (2,292 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reconsidered for nearly two millennia (Copernicus), as Aristotle's geocentric model continued to be favored.) The Platonic school promoted the study of

Occam's razor (10,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

using a geocentric model (the earth is at the centre) or using a heliocentric model (the sun is at the centre). Both work, but the geocentric model requires

Turtles all the way down (3,121 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of proving any truth Primum Mobile – Outermost moving sphere in the geocentric model of the universe Primum movens – Postulated primary cause of all activity

Unmoved mover (3,475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of redirect targets Primum Mobile – Outermost moving sphere in the geocentric model of the universe Causa sui – Term that denotes something that is generated

Aryabhata (4,804 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

equator, constantly pushed by the cosmic wind. Aryabhata described a geocentric model of the Solar System, in which the Sun and Moon are each carried by

John of Saxony (astronomer) (965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Toledan Tables before them, the Alfonsine Tables were based on the geocentric model of the planetary system as described in Ptolemy's Almagest. Around

Gersonides (2,930 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

telling the story of the transition from epicyclic corrections to the geocentric model to Copernicus' heliocentric model". Ne'eman argued that after Gersonides

K. C. Paul (639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paul is an exponent of Geocentric model.

Transit of Venus (4,192 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sphere of the Sun when moving out from the Earth in the then prevailing geocentric model. The German astronomer Johannes Kepler predicted the 1631 transit in

Ancient Greek mathematics (6,224 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Almagest explaining the motions of the stars and planets according to a geocentric model, and calculated out chord tables to a higher degree of precision than

350s BC (2,593 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Also he discusses logical reasoning in Organon. Plato proposes a geocentric model of the universe with the stars rotating on a fixed celestial sphere

The Chronicles of Narnia (12,894 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

bodies or "planets" known in the Middle Ages according to the Ptolemaic geocentric model of cosmology (a theme to which Lewis returned habitually throughout

Biblical cosmology (5,582 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

2010, pp. 77–78 Aune 2003, p. 119: "During the Hellenistic period a geocentric model of the universe largely replaced the older three-tiered universe model

Copernicium (8,623 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated a heliocentric model with the planets orbiting around the Sun, replacing Ptolemy's earlier geocentric model.

List of topics characterized as pseudoscience (39,124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Earth at the center. Under the geocentric model, the Sun, Moon, stars and planets all circled Earth. The geocentric model served as the predominant description

Caspar Peucer (4,008 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

supported each other. Peucer's Christianity pressured him to teach a geocentric model of the universe, which led him to the common and comfortable theory

Women in science (25,521 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to the discovery of the Supernova SN 1572 which helped refute the geocentric model of the universe. Tycho Wrote the Urania Titani about his sister Sophia

Astronomia nova (9,106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the same in all three models. This is so because the epicycle in the geocentric model plays the same role as the orbit of the Earth in heliocentric model

Invalid science (2,607 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Solar System according to the geocentric model of Claudius Ptolemaeus

Satellite system (astronomy) (4,382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

geocentrism (where the Earth is the centre of the universe). However the geocentric model did not generally accommodate the possibility of celestial objects

History of Western civilization (32,240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kingdom of Poland, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus deduced that the geocentric model of the universe was incorrect, and that in fact the planets revolve

Observational history of comets (5,869 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

created a new model of the Universe – a hybrid between the classical geocentric model and the heliocentric one that had been proposed in 1543 by Polish astronomer

History of the extraterrestrial life debate (2,965 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

consequence of the laws of gravitation and motion. With this, the geocentric model was completely discarded. The Copernican revolution, the time between