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| Foucault pendulum: | show 🗑
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| show | A calendar with months that correspond to the length of the moon’s cycle but not to any particular season.
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| show | The false theory that the earth is the center of the solar system.
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| Heliocentric theory: | show 🗑
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| show | The tendency of all objects in the universe to remain at rest if at rest, or, if moving, to continue moving in the same direction unless acted upon by some outside force.
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| show | The force that makes all bodies in the universe tend to move toward one another
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| Leap year: | show 🗑
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| show | A calendar which takes into account both the solar year and the lunar month.
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| show | A simplified picture used by a scientist to represent the phenomenon he is studying.
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| show | An apparent shift in position caused by a change in the point of observation; it is used to determine distances to nearby stars and as proof of the earth’s revolution.
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| Ptolemaic theory: | show 🗑
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| Revolve: | show 🗑
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| Rotate: | show 🗑
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| show | A calendar which corresponds to the solar year and ignores the lunar cycle.
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| show | The time when the sun appears to be directly over the Tropic of Cancer (about June 21).
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| Tropic of Cancer: | show 🗑
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| Tropic of Capricorn: | show 🗑
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| show | The equinox that occurs about March 21.
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| Winter solstice: . | show 🗑
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