What does heliocentricism mean?
Heliocentricism means Alternative form of heliocentrism..
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Alternative form of heliocentrism..
And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever.
I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis.
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Heliocentricism means Alternative form of heliocentrism..
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And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever.
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