7 examples of geocentric in sentences

Take Cicero's book de Officiís, or the Divina Commedia of Dante, and you will find that to them the earth is the center of creation, that the infinite stars circle around it, and that man is the king of animals: a geocentric and anthropocentric illusion inspired by immeasurable conceit.

After the geocentric illusion had been destroyed, the anthropocentric illusion still remained.

While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.

Of course, so long as the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions dominate, it is natural that the lore of stability should impress itself upon science and life.

The old geocentric system once shaken, the way was gradually smoothed for the heliocentric system, which Copernicus, still hampered by tradition, did not quite reach.

Geocentric: Referred to the centre of the earth; e.g. Ptolemy's theory.

The error introduced by observing from some point other than that required in theory, e.g. in geocentric places because the observations are made from the surface of the earth instead of the centre, or in heliocentric places because observations are made from the earth and not from the sun.

7 examples of  geocentric  in sentences