Geocentric model that both Venus and Mercury went around the Sun rather than the Earth, but this is no longer accepted. Martianus Capella definitely put Mercury and Venus in orbit around the Sun. Aristarchus of Samos was the most radical. He wrote a work, which has not survived, on heliocentrism, saying that the Sun was at the center of the universe, while the Earth and other planets revolved around it. His theory was not popular, and he had one named follower, Seleucus of Seleucia. In 1543, the geocentric system met its first serious challenge with the publication of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus orbium
Places in Virginia with names involving "Dale" from Glen Dale Farm, which as so named by Hannah Jane Cockayne, née Alexander. It is known she was 20 or 21 at the time of West Virginia's secession, and that she married the owner in 1863, so even "Glen Dale Farm, Virginia" may be an anachronistic term. It is clear that what is now the city of Glen Dale was "never" a city while its location lay in Virginia. The remaining Dale/-dale-named West Virginia places are: Places in Virginia with names involving "Dale" The term or name Dale appears in a number of place names in the American state