👉 In philosophy and astronomy, geocentricism is a philosophical position that holds that the Earth is the center of the universe. This view suggests that the movement of the sun and stars around the Earth, rather than around the Sun itself, is caused by the rotation of the Earth about its axis. The idea was developed by Aristotle in the 3rd century BCE, but it gained widespread acceptance during the Renaissance when it became a central theme in scientific thought and philosophy.
