Assertion: universe | /r/HasProperty | heliocentric
Facets:
value: in nature
type: LOCATION
value: with revolving around the sun
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: He backed the Copernican theory that the universe was heliocentric, with a stationary sun at the center and the planets—including the Earth—revolving around the sun.
text: Although there were some Greek, Arab and Asian astronomers during Antiquity and the Medieval period who believed that the universe was heliocentric in nature (i.e. that the Earth and other bodies revolved around the Sun) it was not until Nicolaus Copernicus developed his mathematically predictive model of a heliocentric system in the 16th century that it began to become widespread.