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✓ Geocentric model • All planets orbiting the Earth • The geocentric model is a superseded theory of the Solar System’s structure in which the Earth is assumed to be at the centre of it all. • Here is a visualization of what it might have looked like from space. • For over 1,500 years, our forefathers used this theory as the basis for astrological and astronomical charts. It was supplanted by the heliocentric model only in the 16th century! • Of course, now we know that the Earth and other plane