Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of heliocentrism.
I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis.
1907, Gerald Cator, “The Structure of Reality” in Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy Volume 16, ed. G. F. Stout, 581 more example
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.
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
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