† vorticianadj.
Obsolete.
Of or belonging to the theory of a vortex or vortices.
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Ptolemean1623
Ptolemaical1653
Ptolemaic1654
Copernican1667
Tychonic1670
Newtonian1676
Tychonian1710
Galilean1728
vortician1734
pre-Copernican1851
Ptolemaian1864
pre-Galilean1880
post-Einsteinian1938
Velikovskian1974
1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 27 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2)
1734 tr. P. L. M. de Maupertuis Diss. Cœlestial Bodies 23 in J. Keill Exam. Burnet's Theory of Earth (ed. 2) This is all one of the greatest Men of the Age could say in Defence of the Vortician System.
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