How To Use Copernican In A Sentence
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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.
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Provided we make on further assumption, the Copernican principle leads to a rather similar universe model.
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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.
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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?
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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
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Meanwhile that one Catholic entertained the hope that his freedom to defend the Copernican system might yet be restored.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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We then discoursed of the circulation of the blood, the valves in the veins, the venae lacteae, the lymphatic vessels, the Copernican hypothesis, the nature of comets and new stars, the satellites of
Essays
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Galileo had written a pious preface in which he ridiculed the Copernican theory as wild and fantastic and contrary to Holy Scripture.
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Although his work was instrumental in bringing the Copernican system into prominence, Galileo was far more than just an astronomer.
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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
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This theological argument for differentiation was to assume the greatest importance in spreading the Copernican theory.
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Only after Galileo had become famous through his discoveries in the area of mechanics, dynamics and optics, did he admit his Copernican position in print.
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Accordingly, we shall begin with the Copernican innovation as a test case.
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He thus moved the universe from a Copernican Sun-centered system to a Sun located far from the galactic center in one of the spiral arms.
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Consider now how the evolving notions of a flat earth, Copernican astronomy and Einsteinian physics have subsequently changed how mankind sees its place in the cosmos, continuously updating the past explanations with something superior.
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought"
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At one time this was called the Copernican theory; but, when evidence for a theory becomes so overwhelming that no informed person can doubt it, it is customary for scientists to call it a fact.
The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer Part 3
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So important was it thought to have "sound learning" guarded and "safe science" taught, that in many of the universities, as late as the end of the seventeenth century, professors were forced to take an oath not to hold the "Pythagorean" -- that is, the Copernican -- idea as to the movement of the heavenly bodies.
A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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Galileo developed a theory called the Copernican theory that challenged the Church.
Nisayon Diary Entry
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The field has enjoyed its own quiet Copernican revolution in recent years.
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The first book, the best known, discussed what came to be known as the Copernican theory and what is Copernicus's most important contribution to astronomy, the heliocentric universe (although in Copernicus's model, the sun is not truly in the center).
Nicolaus Copernicus
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The names Copernicus and Galileo are connected to one of the greatest paradigm shifts in the history of science, a shift often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.
The G.O.D. Experiments
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in the Copernican system the earth and other planets revolve around the sun
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In the sixteenth century, this outlook gave way to the Copernican theory: Earth and all the other planets revolve around the Sun.
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He is known for defending and making popular the Copernican system, using the telescope to examine the heavens, inventing the microscope, dropping stones from towers and masts, playing with pendula and clocks, being the first ˜real™ experimental scientist, advocating the relativity of motion, and creating a mathematical physics.
Galileo Galilei
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He has moreover enriched his work by adding to it an ecclesiastic compute with all its indications; an orrery after the Copernican system, representing the mean tropical revolutions of each of the planets visible to the naked eye, the phases of the moon, the eclipses of the sun and moon, calculated for ever; the true time and the sideral time; a new celestial globe with the procession of the equinoxes, solar and lunary equations for the reduction of the mean geocentric ascension and declension of the sun and moon at true times and places.
Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
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But even if we concede all that the scientist claims for his conception of God; if we grant that terms like "omnipresence" and "omniscience" and "progress" clothe themselves with new force in the Copernican and Newtonian and
Understanding the Scriptures
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Magnetism, in other words, caused the Earth's Copernican diurnal rotation.
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This boom in cosmographical imagery in the 1650s seems to reflect a growing public awareness of the Copernican issue, which can also be attested from other sources.
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The promulgation of the accepted system of astronomy, called the Copernican system, which represents the earth as revolving on its axis and considers the sun as the centre of motion for the earth and other planets, marked the greatest of scientific revolutions.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
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A paradigm of a scientific revolution in Kuhn's sense would be the Copernican revolution.
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This theological argument for differentiation was to assume the greatest importance in spreading the Copernican theory.
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Pernicus, out of respect to his father's partners) soon set this matter to rights, and started the idea of the present Solar System, which, greatly improved since his day, is occasionally called the Copernican system.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
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Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution: I actually find Structure of Scientific Revolutions a bit obscurantist in some respects that encourages misreadings.
Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books
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In this way, apparent contradictions between Copernican astronomy and biblical texts would be eliminated.
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Only after Galileo had become famous through his discoveries in the area of mechanics, dynamics and optics, did he admit his Copernican position in print.
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Isaac Newton solved the final problem in the Copernican hypothesis by demonstrating that planetary motion was caused by gravitation.
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The new system is called Copernican after its first modern exponent -- and its general acceptance went far to annihilate astrology and to place astronomy upon a rational basis.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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The same theory of gravity that required the sun to be at the center of the solar system also ruled out Copernican epicycles.
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Common Sense
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He thus moved the universe from a Copernican Sun-centered system to a Sun located far from the galactic center in one of the spiral arms.
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a Copernican revolution in modern art
