heliocentrism
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- Ancient and medieval astronomy
- Classical antiquity
- Pythagoreans
- Aristarchus of Samos
- Seleucus of Seleucia
- Late antiquity
- Ancient India
- Medieval Islamic world
- Medieval India
- Renaissance-era astronomy
- Medieval period
- Copernican heliocentrism
- ''De Revolutionibus'' (1543)
- Early Religious Reaction To Copernicanism
- Reception in Early Modern Europe
- Giordano Bruno
- Tycho Brahe's geo-heliocentric system (c. 1587)
- Johannes Kepler
- Galileo Galilei and 1616 ban against Copernicanism
- Age of Reason
- Reception in Judaism
- Modern science
- William Herschel's heliocentrism
- Replacement with galactocentrism and acentrism
- Special relativity and the "center"
- Modern use of ''geocentric'' and ''heliocentric''
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Sources
- External links
thumb|upright=1.2|Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica
Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which at the center of the universe the Earth and the planets orbit around the Sun. It superseded geocentrism. In modern astronomy there are only frames of references.