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Geocentrical   Listen
adjective
Geocentrical, Geocentric  adj.  (Astron.)
(a)
Having, considering, or based on, the earth as center; as, the geocentric theory of the universe; in relation to or seen from the earth, usually opposed to heliocentric, as seen from the sun; as, the geocentric longitude or latitude of a planet.
Geocentric latitude (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude. It is a little less than the geographic latitude.






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"Geocentrical" Quotes from Famous Books



... hither he was conscious of this divergence, and since he had last shared in the Vicarage life it had grown even more distinctly foreign to his own than usual. Its transcendental aspirations—still unconsciously based on the geocentric view of things, a zenithal paradise, a nadiral hell—were as foreign to his own as if they had been the dreams of people on another planet. Latterly he had seen only Life, felt only the great passionate pulse of existence, unwarped, uncontorted, untrammelled by those creeds ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy



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