"system" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Retrieved 2008-09-28 Tycho advocated an alternative to the Ptolemaic geocentric system, a geo-heliocentric system now known as the Tychonic system.
- The celestial sphere, still used for teaching purposes and sometimes for navigation, is also based on a geocentric system which in effect ignores parallax.
- However, the geocentric system would remain dominant until the Scientific Revolution.
- Historically, in geocentric systems, apsides were measured from the center of the Earth.
- The orbits of planets in the once popular geocentric Ptolemaic system are epitrochoids.
- He was skeptical of the geocentric system.
- Tycho advocated an alternative to the Ptolemaic geocentric system: A "geo-heliocentric" system now known as the Tychonic system, which he developed in the late 1570s.
- Both men were described as "free minds and free souls," and Novara believed that his findings would have shaken Ptolemy's "unshakable" geocentric system.
- However, these tables translated Copernicus' mathematical methods back into a geocentric system, rejecting heliocentric cosmology on physical and theological grounds.
- He said his Tychonic system, which incorporated Copernican features into a geocentric system, "offended neither the principles of physics nor Holy Scripture".
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