different between heliocentricity vs heliocentricism
heliocentricity
English
Etymology
heliocentric +? -ity
Noun
heliocentricity (uncountable)
- The quality of being heliocentric; heliocentrism.
heliocentricity From the web:
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heliocentricism
English
Etymology
heliocentric +? -ism < from Greek ????????????? (heliokentrikos) "having the sun as his centre", from ancient Greek ????? (helios) "sun" + ??????? (kentron) "centre".
Noun
heliocentricism (uncountable)
- Alternative form of heliocentrism
- 1869, William Howard Ward, editor, Review of “l’Abbé D. Bouix, La Condamnation de Galilée” in “Notices of Books” in The Dublin Review Volume 64, 224:
- And as to Copernicus, he declared most expressly in his preface that he spoke of Heliocentricism as a pure hypothesis; the imagination of which was useful for the calculation of planetary orbits, but which “need not be true or even probable,” i.e., resting on any solid ground whatever.
- 1907, Gerald Cator, “The Structure of Reality” in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy Volume 16, ed. G. F. Stout, 58
- I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis.
- 1869, William Howard Ward, editor, Review of “l’Abbé D. Bouix, La Condamnation de Galilée” in “Notices of Books” in The Dublin Review Volume 64, 224:
Usage notes
This is the form recognized by many dictionaries as grammatically correct. However, in current usage "heliocentrism" appears to be by far more frequently used. According to a Google Books search it seems that "heliocentrism" began to gain ground in the turn of 1960s and 1970s with the first occurrence taking place in 1930s.
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heliocentricism From the web:
- what does heliocentric mean
- what is heliocentrism and geocentrism
- what does heliocentrism
- what proved heliocentrism
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