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Meaning of 日心说

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xīn shuō (Trad.: 日心說)
heliocentric theory; the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe
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Nicolas Copernicus challenged the mindset and found that it was heliocentric.
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The achievement in astronomy was the revival and proof of the heliocentric theory that is regarding the sun as center.
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Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition: Education, Reading, and Philosophy in Copernicus's Path to Heliocentrism ( History of Science and Medicine Library ) , 15
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Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the centre of the universe.
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Galileo's observations with his new telescope convinced him of the truth of Copernicus's sun-centered or heliocentric theory .