geocentric

How To Use geocentric In A Sentence

• Can you envisage how concerned you'd become if your satellite TV company started planning its coverage using a geocentric system of astronomy based on the use of Ptolemy's epicycles?
• Greek astronomer who mapped the position of 850 stars in the earliest known star chart. His observations of the heavens form the basis of Ptolemy's geocentric cosmology.
• A few taps on the pocket calculator show that the Moon's speed in its geocentric orbit is around 2,300 miles per hour, although variable between perigee and apogee.
• Perhaps the problem of retrogression lies not in the planets themselves but in our understanding of the system of planets gathered about our Sun, and the relationship that the planets have with the Sun as seen from our geocentric viewpoint.
• The heliocentric system opens up the possibility of aspect patterns that could never happen in the geocentric system - such as Venus in major aspect to the Sun.
• I try to type "geocentric" and discover that I have typed "egocentric"; is Autocorrect making a sort of cosmic joke?
• They accepted the theories of the four humours and the geocentric universe. Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science by Jim al-Khalili – review
• Love will diehard, as died the idolatries of our forefathers, the geocentric theory of the universe, and the divine right of kings. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• He was an orthodox Aristotelian in his view of the cosmos as unique, uncreated, and geocentric.
• The varying relationship between geocentric and heliocentric longitudes makes it difficult to calculate the exact chance of such a thing happening in any chart, but it is certainly over 95%.