geocentric system

Historically, in geocentric systems, apsides were measured from the center of the Earth.

However, the geocentric system would remain dominant until the Scientific Revolution.

He was skeptical of the geocentric system.

The celestial sphere, still used for teaching purposes and sometimes for navigation, is also based on a geocentric system which in effect ignores parallax.

However, these tables translated Copernicus' mathematical methods back into a geocentric system, rejecting heliocentric cosmology on physical and theological grounds.

Retrieved 2008-09-28 Tycho advocated an alternative to the Ptolemaic geocentric system, a geo-heliocentric system now known as the Tychonic system.

Both men were described as "free minds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken Ptolemy's "unshakable" geocentric system.

The ITRS defines a geocentric system of coordinates using the SI system of measurement.

He said his Tychonic system, which incorporated Copernican features into a geocentric system, "offended neither the principles of physics nor Holy Scripture".

The reference in Joshua 10:13 to the sun standing still 'in the midst of the heavens' was surely more consonant, Galileo suggested, with the Copernican than with a geocentric system?

According to Krivchenkov, the intents to "interpret" quantum mechanics in terms of classical mechanics have no more sense than interpretation of heliocentric cosmological system in terms of geocentric system.

In 1543, the geocentric system met its first serious challenge with the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, which posited that the Earth and the other planets instead revolved around the Sun.

In his book "The Way of Mathematics", later edited and re-printed by his student Balanos Vasilopoulos, Anthrakites referred to the Copernican heliocentric system, although he supported the geocentric system.

The book, first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.

The geocentric system was still held for many years afterwards, as at the time the Copernican system did not offer better predictions than the geocentric system, and it posed problems for both natural philosophy and scripture.

Decades before Galileo was born in 1564, Copernicus had concluded that the Earth revolved around the Sun, a position that contradicted the prevailing geocentric system as well as the church's teaching, based on Scripture, that the Earth anchored God's creation.

He verified its observations about certain peculiarities in Ptolemy's theory of the Moon's motion, by conducting on 9 March 1497 at Bologna a memorable observation of Aldebaran, the brightest star in the Taurus constellation, whose results reinforced his doubts as to the geocentric system.

Tycho Brahe, arguably the most accomplished astronomer of his time, advocated against Copernicus's heliocentric system and for an alternative to the Ptolemaic geocentric system: a geo-heliocentric system now known as the Tychonic system in which the five then known planets orbit the sun, while the sun and the moon orbit the earth.