| The Ptolemaic theory was well and truly gone, and the Keplerian version of heliocentrism was well and truly established. |
| Although Copernicus didn't see any big ideas flowing from the sun-centered system, the Church was slowly beginning to suspect that heliocentrism, heretically, elbowed man right out of the center of things. |
| One was heliocentrism, the notion that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe. |
| Now, let's try to visualize the epistemological revolution that led us from geocentrism to heliocentrism. |
| The instructions from Rome were quite explicit, since they asked him to discuss heliocentrism only hypothetically and not present it as a better explanation than geocentrism. |
| Aristotle even explicitly argues against some of the ideas that were espoused during the scientific revolution, such as heliocentrism. |
