heliocentric
adjective
measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun.
heliocentricism
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a word derived from
heliocentric.
Example Sentences
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The stimuli were Galileo Galilei’s lunar observations and championing of heliocentricism, and the encounters of imperial voyagers with the lands and peoples of the Americas.
From Nature ● Jul. 8, 2019
In the first place the "purposefulness" of the movements of the planets is not affected in the very least by the question of heliocentricism.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle
