heliocentric universe definition
Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica (1708). Heliocentrism, or heliocentricism, is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the Solar System. The word comes from the Greek (á¼¥Î»Î¹Î¿Ï helios sun and ÎºÎ­Î½ÏÏÎ¿Î½ kentron center).