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geocentric, a. (n.)|dʒiːəʊˈsɛntrɪk|
[f. geo-: see centric. Cf. F. géocentrique. Opposed in both senses to heliocentric.]
1. Referred to the earth as centre; considered as viewed from the centre of the earth: as the geocentric latitude, geocentric longitude, geocentric place, etc. of a planet, i.e. that in which it would appear to an observer placed at the centre of the earth.
1686Phil. Trans. XVI. 196 One of his [{jup}'s] Geocentrick places. 1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 15 Its Geocentric Latitude will be measured by the Angle {male} T E. 1784Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 256 Our next business will be to reduce these two geocentric observations to a heliocentric measure. 1816Playfair Nat. Phil. II. 161 If the planet's elongation from the Sun, and its geocentric latitude be observed, the inclination of the orbit may be found. 1868Lockyer Elem. Astron. 167 This latitude and longitude may be either heliocentric or geocentric, that is reckoned from the centre either of the Sun or Earth respectively. 1880Nature XXI. 315 The apparent retardation of the eclipses as affected by the geocentric position of Jupiter.
2. Having, or representing, the earth as centre.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Geocentrick, any Orb or Planet that has the Earth for its Center, or the same Center with the Earth. 1834[see heliocentric 2]. 1859Mill Liberty 66 Some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric. 1865Grote Plato I. i. 14 note, The original system proposed by Protagoras was a geocentric system. 1880M. Pattison Milton xiii. 180 In the universe of being the difference between a heliocentric and a geocentric theory is of..small moment.
fig.1854De Quincey Autobiog. Sk. Wks. II. 54 Wheel into a new centre your moral system; geocentric has that system been up to this hour—that is, having earth and the earthly for its starting-point. 1871H. Macmillan True Vine i. 36 Regarded from this heliocentric position, difficulties and mysteries, insoluble from the geocentric position, are cleared away.
3. n. An adherent of the geocentric theory.
1667A. Nowel in Josselyn Voy. New Eng. (1674) 48 This assertion is not expugned by Geocentricks who produce sense and Antiquity to support their suppositions.
Hence geoˈcentrical a. [+ -al1] = prec.; ˌgeoˈcentrically adv., as viewed from the centre of the earth; geoˈcentricism, the geocentric theory.
1727Bailey vol. II, Geocentrically. 1775Ash, Geocentrical. 1882F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) XXXV. 340/3 And did not he [Bacon] cling to geocentricism, which was still prevailingly current in his day? 1885W. W. Roberts Pontif. Decrees Introd. 53 In 1742..Geocentricism as a scientific theory was dead. |