"heliocentricism" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From heliocentric + -ism < from Greek ηλιοκεντρικός (heliokentrikos) \"having the sun as his centre\", from ancient Greek ήλιος (helios) \"sun\" + κέντρον (kentron) \"centre\".",
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "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."
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          "text": "I do not say for example that Heliocentricism is no truer than Geocentricism, but is only a simpler hypothesis."
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