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  2. Heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    While a moving Earth was proposed at least from the 4th century BC in Pythagoreanism, and a fully developed heliocentric model was developed by Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BC, these ideas were not successful in replacing the view of a static spherical Earth, and from the 2nd century AD the predominant model, which would be inherited ...

  3. Vicarious Hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    Brahe assigned Kepler the task of modeling the motion of Mars using only data that Brahe had collected himself. [3] Upon the death of Brahe in 1601, all of Brahe's data was willed to Kepler. [7] Brahe's observational data was among the most accurate of his time, which Kepler used in the construction of the Vicarious Hypothesis. [8]

  4. Copernican heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    Philolaus (4th century BCE) was one of the first to hypothesize movement of the Earth, probably inspired by Pythagoras' theories about a spherical, moving globe. In the 3rd century BCE, Aristarchus of Samos proposed what was, so far as is known, the first serious model of a heliocentric Solar System, having developed some of Heraclides Ponticus' theories (speaking of a "revolution of the Earth ...

  5. Copernican principle - Wikipedia

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    Although the Copernican heliocentric model is often described as "demoting" Earth from its central role it had in the Ptolemaic geocentric model, it was successors to Copernicus, notably the 16th century Giordano Bruno, who adopted this new perspective. The Earth's central position had been interpreted as being in the "lowest and filthiest parts".

  6. History of the center of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    The heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, [9] [note 1] is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around a relatively stationary Sun at the center of the Solar System.

  7. Mysterium Cosmographicum - Wikipedia

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    Johannes Kepler's first major astronomical work, Mysterium Cosmographicum (The Cosmographic Mystery), was the second published defence of the Copernican system.Kepler claimed to have had an epiphany on July 19, 1595, while teaching in Graz, demonstrating the periodic conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the zodiac: he realized that regular polygons bound one inscribed and one circumscribed ...

  8. Astronomers discover Kepler-10c, rocky planet much ... - AOL

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    By Irene Klotz BOSTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered a new type of rocky planet beyond the solar system that weighs more than 17 times as much as Earth while being just over twice the ...

  9. Johannes Kepler - Wikipedia

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    In this work, Kepler describes the effects of the Sun, Moon, and the planets in terms of their light and their influences upon humors, finalizing with Kepler's view that the Earth possesses a soul with some sense of geometry. Stimulated by the geometric convergence of rays formed around it, the world-soul is sentient but not conscious. As a ...