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1. A belief that Earth is the centre of the universe and does not move.
   "addition to the minority of stubborn fundamentalists who insist on a geocentric model for dogmatic reasons, there are also a substantial number of undereducated people who hold a kind of passive geocentrism for ignorance, believing (if they even think about it at all) that the sun must orbit the Earth daily because that it what we appear to see."

Type of: theory

Encyclopedia: Geocentric model