Tychonic system

Tychonic system
/tuy kon"ik/, Astron.
a model for planetary motion devised by Tycho Brahe in which the earth is stationary and at the center of the planetary system, the sun and moon revolve around the earth, and the other planets revolve around the sun.
[1670-80; Tychon- (s. of Tycho (BRAHE), Latinized form of Dan Tyge) + -IC]

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      scheme for the structure of the solar system put forward in 1583 by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. He retained from the ancient Ptolemaic system the idea of Earth as a fixed centre of the universe around which the Sun and Moon revolved, but he held that, as in the newer system of Copernicus, all other planets revolved around the Sun. In both the Tychonic and the Ptolemaic systems, an outer sphere containing the fixed stars was considered to revolve every day around the Earth. The Tychonic theory explained the observed variations of phase of Venus, for which the Ptolemaic system had no explanation.

      A system somewhat similar to Tycho's had been proposed in the 4th century BC by the Greek philosopher Heracleides Ponticus, who thought that at least Mercury and Venus (it is uncertain if Heracleides included other planets) went around the Sun.

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