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Is it true or false that a heliocentric model of the solar system has earth at the center?
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
False!!!!
The ancients of Greece and Rome and earlier thought the Earth (Terrestium) was the centre of the universe.
However, a Polish astronomer named Nicolaus Copernicus, showed that the Sun was the centre of the known system of the day.
He published in 1543, his work on the Heliocentric system, ; 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' ( On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres.). It deduced : -
#1 The Earth is one of several planets revolving around a stationary sun in a determined order.
#2 The Earth has three motions: daily rotation, annual revolution, and annual tilting of its axis.
#3 Retrograde motion of the planets is explained by the Earth's motion.
#4 The distance from the Earth to the Sun is small compared to the distance from the Sun to the stars.
lenpollock
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∙ 11y agoFalse. "Helios" was the Greek name for the Sun, and "centric" clearly comes from "center", so a heliocentric system is Sun-centered.
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What is the theory?
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What was at the center of Aristotles model?
Earth waswhich is obviously now false!
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Is Earth is a system comprised of interacting processes.?
FALSE
Is earth a system comprised of interacting process?
FALSE
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