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Geocentrism

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theory that Earth is the centre of the Universe

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The universe revolves around a centre once in twenty-four hours, but the orbits of the fixed stars take a different direction from those of the planets. The outer and the inner sphere cross one another and meet again at a point opposite to that of their first contact; the first moving in a circle from left to right along the side of a parallelogram which is supposed to…
Plato, Timaeus
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Of the four quadrants of the earth, thus agreeing in number with the four triplicities, one is situated in the north-west of the entire earth, and contains Celto-galatia; or, as it is commonly called, Europe. Opposed to this quadrant lies that of the south-east, towards Eastern Æthiopia; it is called the southern part of Asia Magna. Another quadrant of the entire earth is in the north-east, about Scythia, and is…
Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
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Indeed, when two things are simultaneously raised by one and the same power, the smaller quantity must of course yield more readily than the greater to the impulsive force by which they are constrained; and hence, the one is called _heavy_ and gravitating downwards, the other _light_ and tending upwards. The same thing also is observable in what we ourselves do, who inhabit this place [the earth].
Plato, The works of Plato
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