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  2. Geocentric model - Wikipedia

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    The astronomical predictions of Ptolemy's geocentric model, developed in the 2nd century CE, served as the basis for preparing astrological and astronomical charts for over 1,500 years. The geocentric model held sway into the early modern age, but from the late 16th century onward, it was gradually superseded by the heliocentric model of ...

  3. Historical models of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    In 1588, Tycho Brahe publishes his own Tychonic system, a blend between the Ptolemy's classical geocentric model and Copernicus' heliocentric model, in which the Sun and the Moon revolve around the Earth, in the center of universe, and all other planets revolve around the Sun. [69] It was an attempt to conciliate his religious beliefs with ...

  4. Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

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    In the geocentric model, developed in Ancient Greece, then standardized by Ptolemy in the 2nd century, the Earth was believed to be at the center of the cosmos. Seven planets were placed in orbit around it in an order of increasing distance from the Earth, as established by the Greek Stoics : the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter ...

  5. History of the center of the Universe - Wikipedia

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    In the 4th century BC Greece, philosophers developed the geocentric model, based on astronomical observation; this model proposed that the center of the Universe lies at the center of a spherical, stationary Earth, around which the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars rotate.

  6. Timeline of cosmological theories - Wikipedia

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    1588 – Tycho Brahe publishes his own Tychonic system, a blend between Ptolemy's classical geocentric model and Copernicus' heliocentric model, in which the Sun and the Moon revolve around the Earth, in the center of universe, and all other planets revolve around the Sun. [61] It is a geo-heliocentric model similar to that described by Somayaji.

  7. Timeline of Solar System astronomy - Wikipedia

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    He also developed highly accurate models for the orbital motion of the Moon, Mercury and Mars. He also developed a geocentric model of the universe. [37] [38] [39] c. 620 – Indian mathematician-astronomer Brahmagupta describe gravity as a attractive force by the term guruvatkarshan. [40]

  8. Celestial spheres - Wikipedia

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    Geocentric celestial spheres; Peter Apian's Cosmographia (Antwerp, 1539) The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others.

  9. Heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    The first non-geocentric model of the universe was proposed by the Pythagorean philosopher Philolaus (d. 390 BC), who taught that at the center of the universe was a "central fire", around which the Earth, Sun, Moon and planets revolved in uniform circular motion.