Copernican

How To Use Copernican In A Sentence

• Copernican revolution in philosophy", as he termed it: the most fundamental revolution in the whole history of epistemology; and his ethics is the most important one since Aristotle's. New Releases
• Provided we make on further assumption, the Copernican principle leads to a rather similar universe model.
• And moving to a Copernican system was a great threat to this kind of sacred geography, uh, which was tacitly accepted but wasn't really honestly part of scripture.
• It flies in the face of the so-called Copernican principle and implies that our existence is... well... a miracle. Seth Shostak: Are We a Biological Miracle?
• For example, consider the widely accepted sixteenth-century ˜tower argument™ against the Copernican claim that the earth moves: the earth can't be moving, because a stone released from a tower will fall ˜straight down™ to the foot of the tower, and not land some distance to the west as apparently required by Copernicus. Naturalism
• Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored.
• Boulliau: “The axiom that the celestial motions are circular or composed of circles must stand, and therefore I reject and repudiate his ellipses unless he should suppose them to be described by means of a Copernican or Tychonic epicycle.” (letter to Gassendi 1633) Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
• The orrery was ideal for displaying the Copernican model of the planets in our Solar System, but, like the Gottorp globe, it failed to provide an integrated view of the universe.
• And moving to a Copernican system was a great threat to this kind of sacred geography, uh, which was tacitly accepted but wasn't really honestly part of scripture.
• It flies in the face of the so-called Copernican principle and implies that our existence is ... well ... a miracle. Seth Shostak: Are We a Biological Miracle?