Heliocentric synonyms

But the explanation of this phenomenon is equally consistent with the geocentric as with the heliocentric theory of the solar system.

The routine sla_PLANET produces heliocentric position and velocity in the form of equatorial for the mean equator and equinox of J2000.

However, true progress in understanding the solar system and the planets only came when heliocentric ideas began to supplant the old geocentric system.

The coordinates thus found will in the case of a body moving around the sun be heliocentric. The reduction to the earth's centre is a problem of pure geometry.

His dissatisfaction with Ptolemaic doctrines was of early date; and he returned from Italy, where so-called Pythagorean opinions were then freely discussed, in strong and irrevocable possession of the heliocentric theory.