Heliocentric Definition

Heliocentric Sentence Examples

• But the explanation of this phenomenon is equally consistent with the geocentric as with the heliocentric theory of the solar system.

• The routine sla_PLANET produces heliocentric position and velocity in the form of equatorial for the mean equator and equinox of J2000.

• The problem of determining a heliocentric orbit first presented itself to Kepler, who actually determined that of Mars.

• However, true progress in understanding the solar system and the planets only came when heliocentric ideas began to supplant the old geocentric system.

• His dissatisfaction with Ptolemaic doctrines was of early date; and he returned from Italy, where so-called Pythagorean opinions were then freely discussed, in strong and irrevocable possession of the heliocentric theory.