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Geocentrism
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Geocentrism is a superseded astronomical model description of the Universe with Earth at the center. It is also known as the geocentric model, often exemplified specifically by the Ptolemaic system. U
Figure of the heavenly bodies – An illustration of a Ptolemaic geocentric system by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho, 1568 (B
Figure of the heavenly bodies – An illustration of a Ptolemaic geocentric system by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho, 1568 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
Pages from 1550 Annotazione on Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi, showing the Ptolemaic system.
Pages from 1550 Annotazione on Sacrobosco's De sphaera mundi, showing the Ptolemaic system.
Copernican heliocentrism
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Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, mot
Geocentrism
…died out. In the United States between 1870 and 1920, for example, various members of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod published articles disparaging Copernican astronomy and promoting geocentrism. However, in the 1902 Theological Quarterly, A. L. Graebner observed that the synod had no doctrinal position on geocentrism…
Heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
Heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
Nicolai Copernicito Torinensis De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in six books) (title page of
Nicolai Copernicito Torinensis De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, Libri VI (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in six books) (title page of 2nd edition, Basel, 1566)
Statue of Copernicus next to Cracow University's Collegium Novum
Statue of Copernicus next to Cracow University's Collegium Novum
Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660)
Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660)