The Heliocentric Model of The Solar System

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The Heliocentric Model of

the Solar System


J.T.II Olivar
Faculty of Arts and Letters
University of Santo Tomas
1st Semester AY 2012-2013
 What was our initial model of the
universe? Or the solar system?
 Aristotle first proposed that our solar
system existed with the Earth at its center
and the planets / Sun rotating around us.
Geocentric model
 What is retrograde motion?
Heliocentric model
 What is celestial sphere? How is it related
to plane of the ecliptic?
Celestial sphere
Earth’s motions and Seasons

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