Copernicus

How To Use Copernicus In A Sentence

• In the heliocentric universe conceived by the sixteenth-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, for example, planets orbited the Sun in perfect circles.
• Now Copernicus' heliocentric theory wasn't exactly new nor was it based on purely empirical observation.
• Fixed stars continued to be used as reference points throughout the Middle Ages, and even Copernicus measured positions in a sidereal zodiac beginning from the fixed star Mesartim.
• He thought that Copernicus and Galileo had revealed the method for investigating the natural world, that Harvey had applied this to the study of the body, and that he, Hobbes, was showing how this method, the resoluto-compositive method of Galileo, could be applied to psychology and politics. BEHAVIORISM
• Descartes received his stimulus from the new physics and astronomy of Copernicus, Galileo, and others.
• Copernicus must surely have had it in mind when he came up with the idea that the earth orbited the sun.
• Subversive books, including those advancing the theories of Newton and Copernicus, were removed from the university's library.
• For your declaration of Vieta's appendicle it is so full and plaine, as you haue aboundantlie satisfyed my desire, for wch I yield you the thankes I ought, onlie in a word tell me whether by it he can solue Copernicus, 5 cap: of his 5. booke. Thomas Hariot
• Galileo defended the ‘epicycloids’ of Copernicus, even though Kepler already had presented a much better theory.
• 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