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English
Etymology
From heliocentric + -ism.
Noun
heliocentricism (uncountable)
- Alternative form of heliocentrism
- 1869, William Howard Ward, editor, Review of “l’Abbé D. Bouix, La Condamnation de Galilée” in “Notices of Books” in The Dublin Review Volume 64, 224:
- And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever.
- 1907, Gerald Cator, “The Structure of Reality” in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy Volume 16, ed. G. F. Stout, 58
- I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis.
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