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Celestial and Orbital Order Since the pre-Socratic era, there has been obsession with celestial bodies and their movements in space. Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle propounded the geocentric astronomical model. Geocentrism was the prevailing astronomical postulation, and the theory was based on the Earth being orbited by the Sun, Moon, stars and planets. A popular proponent from the geocentric era was Ptolemy and the Ptolemaic system was that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and other celestial bodies – planets, stars, and the Sun – revolved around Earth. Notably, around the 13th century, some astronomers critiqued the Ptolemaic astronomical model, and they were mainly from the Maragheh Observatory in Persia. Prominent among the astronomers were Nasir Al-Din al-Tusi and Al-Urdi. This research phase effectively buried the geocentric astronomical model and laid the foundation for what was to be known as the heliocentric astronomical model around the 16th century. Heli