Geocentric model coelestium" ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), which posited that the Earth and the other planets instead revolved around the Sun. The geocentric system was still held for many years afterwards, as at the time the Copernican system did not offer better predictions than the geocentric system, and it posed problems for both natural philosophy and scripture. The Copernican system was no more accurate than Ptolemy's system, because it still used circular orbits. This was not altered until Johannes Kepler postulated that they were elliptical (Kepler's first law of planetary motion). With the invention of the telescope in 1609,
Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 The Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) is a geodetic datum covering the Australian continent. Details of this datum are provided by the GDA94 Technical Manual. The GDA94 datum was formalized in 1994, replacing the previous datums which were being used in Australia at the time, the Australian Geodetic Datum 1966 (AGD66) and the Australian Geodetic Datum 1984 (AGD84). Prior to 1966, maps in Australia were produced in miles using the Australian National Grid. At the same time as GDA94 was defined, a Universal Transverse Mercator coordinate system called the Map Grid of Australia 1994