with your doctor and identify the treatment program that works best for you. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Note: The cost estimates are based on an approximate grouping of services and reflects2007 HMO cost data trended to Q3 2009.
Copernican heliocentrism. Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. It positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform speeds.
Diagram of the Copernican system, from De Revolutions. [click for larger image]. But in the first book, Copernicus stated that the Sun was the center of the universe and that the Earth had a triple motion [1] around this center.he Copernican system simply did not fit into the Aristotelian way of thinking. It took a century and a half for a new physics to be devised to undegird heliocentric astronomy. The works in physics and astronomy of Galileo and Johannes Kepler were crucial steps on this road. There was another problem.