heliocentricism

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heliocentricism

1. the concept that the sun is the center of the universe.
2. Astronomy. the measurements or observations that are relative to the center of the sun. Also heliocentricity. — heliocentric, adj.

See also: Cosmology

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This is certainly true; one of the reasons he found Mexican culture so resonant was what he interpreted to be its inherent heliocentricism. I would just add to this argument that Forster's "inner landscapes" may lie beyond blood or geography, but were shaped by both.

A Canadian discovery: Michael Forster (1907-2002)--the net of memory

Tycho Brahe, the great sixteenth-century astronomical observer, pursued the study of astrology (Thoren 16-17); Robert Westman has plausibly argued that one of the reasons Copernicus was attracted to heliocentricism was because it refuted Pico's claim that the uncertainty about the order of the planets was a valid argument against astrology.

Pico and the historiography of Renaissance astrology

The world is beyond heliocentricism to billions of galaxies in an expanding universe that has no center.