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it means that Copernicus ( the discoverer ) felt as if the sun is the center of the universe. ptolemy and Copernicus bumped heads for years because ptolemy belived that the earth was the center of the universe

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Heliocentric means having the Sun as the center, such as in the heliocentric model of the solar system where the planets orbit around the Sun. This model replaced the geocentric model, in which Earth was believed to be the center of the universe.

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The belief that the Sun is in the middle of the universe, which it is!

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In Heliocentrism, the Sun (Helios) is said to be at the centre of the universe.

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having the sun in the centre of the solar system

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A heliocentric system is a system with the sun in the center.

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One which considers the Sun - as opposed to the Earth, as in older theories - to be at the center.

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It means having the sun as the center.

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