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(astronomy) Of astronomical models of the solar system in which the Earth and planets move, but the Sun does not..
If heliostatic astronomy has no technical advantages, if thoroughly modern astronomy is not heliostatic, and if the arguments adduced by Copernicus were unconvincing, why were the early geostatic astronomies, Ptolemy's in particular, superseded?
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Heliostatic means (astronomy) Of astronomical models of the solar system in which the Earth and planets move, but the Sun does not..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include geostatic.
If heliostatic astronomy has no technical advantages, if thoroughly modern astronomy is not heliostatic, and if the arguments adduced by Copernicus were unconvincing, why were the early geostatic astronomies, Ptolemy's in particular, superseded?
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