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  1. What Was It That Didn’t Turn the World? The Idea of the Stationary Earth, Ibn Sīnā, and the Proofs That Followed.Sami Baga - 2020 - In The 1st International Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Symposium on History Of Science in Islam Proceedings Book. İstanbul: IU Press. pp. 131-138.
    The Earth is positioned at the center of the universe in the Ptolemaic model of the universe. The center of the Earth is at the same time the center of the universe in this model. This system, which was constructed according to Aristotelian physics, was accepted as the prevailing theory up to the adoption of the heliocentric universal model in the 16th century. The Earth was at the same time assumed to be completely stationary in the geocentric theory. Movement around (...)
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