How to Use geocentric in a Sentence
geocentric
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The positions of the heavenly bodies could be modeled exquisitely using the geocentric model, in a way that the heliocentric model could not reproduce.
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Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
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Especially in light of a recent Times article noting how many conservative Christians feel disturbed—or, rather, their geocentric world view feels disturbed—by the idea of alien life.
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Hannah Jocelyn,
New Yorker,
11 June 2026
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Under even the most stringent of conditions, where the geocentric model exhibited its greatest departures from what was predicted, Kepler’s heliocentric model would display its greatest success.
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Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
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Unfortunately for Copernicus, the geocentric predictions were more accurate — with fewer and smaller observational discrepancies — than the heliocentric model.
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Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
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Instead, Kepler’s heliocentrism, with elliptical orbits, was so remarkable because, for the first time, an idea had come along that described the Universe, including the motion of the planets, better, more accurately, and more comprehensively than the previous (geocentric) model could.
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Big Think,
30 Oct. 2025
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