英语单词“geocentrism”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 geocentrism 释义 geocentrismnoun[U]uk/?d?i?.???sen..tr?.z?m/us/?d?i?.o??sen..tr?.z?m/thefalseideathat theEarthis at thecentreof theuniverse, with thesunand the otherplanetsmovingaround it:Historically, heliocentrism wasopposedto geocentrism, whichplacedtheEarthat thecentre.Galileo'sfindingsput him inoppositionto theofficialgeocentrism of theChurch.Related wordgeocentricCompareheliocentrism

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• TheArabastronomerAl-Battani (Albatenius)disprovedthe Ptolemaicdogmaof geocentrismlongbefore Copernicuspublishedhisfamoustreatise.
• Some stillproclaimgeocentrism today as a "definiteteachingof theBible".
• Theideathat theEarthis thecentreof God’sattentionis not the same asadvancingargumentsforphysicalgeocentrism.

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