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    The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the...
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    Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center...
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    universe? (more unsolved problems in physics) In physical cosmology, the Copernican principle states that humans are not privileged observers of the universe...
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  • The Copernican Revolution is the scientific paradigm shift from the Earth-centric model of the universe to the heliocentric model of the Solar System...
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    Nicolaus Copernicus, leading to the Copernican Revolution. In 1576, Thomas Digges published a modified Copernican system. His modifications are close...
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  • The Copernican Revolution is a 1957 book by the philosopher Thomas Kuhn, in which the author provides an analysis of the Copernican Revolution, documenting...
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    positioned the Sun as the center of the Universe. Prior to the Copernican Revolution, the Ptolemaic system, also known as the geocentric model, was widely...
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  • "map" directing new research. For example, Kuhn's analysis of the Copernican Revolution emphasized that, in its beginning, it did not offer more accurate...
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    Reason (1781/1787), his best-known work. Kant drew a parallel to the Copernican Revolution in his proposal to think of the objects of experience as conforming...
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    having utilitarian goals. The Scientific Revolution is traditionally assumed to start with the Copernican Revolution (initiated in 1543) and to be complete...
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    depicted the planets orbiting the sun. This was the start of the Copernican Revolution. The success of astronomy, compared to other sciences, was achieved...
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    Nicolaus Copernicus (category Copernican Revolution)
    the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution...
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  • extraterrestrial life was compatible with the doctrines of Christianity. The Copernican Revolution radically altered mankind's image of the architecture of the cosmos...
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    ISBN 978-0-09-945787-9, p. 354. Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, p. 185. Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, pp. 186–87. Dreyer 1906, p. 345 Deming...
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    Michael J. (1990). Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications. ISBN 0486261735. Dreyer, J.L.E...
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    Johannes Kepler (category Copernican Revolution)
    Lexicon, Cambridge University Press, 2016, "Inertia." Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution, pp. 238, 246–252 Frautschi, Steven C.; Olenick, Richard P.; Apostol...
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  • Newton's laws of motion (category Copernican Revolution)
    ISBN 978-0-486-15175-5. OCLC 874097920. Cohen, I. Bernard (1980). The Newtonian Revolution: With Illustrations of the Transformation of Scientific Ideas. Cambridge...
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    Galileo Galilei (category Copernican Revolution)
    sunspots. He also built an early microscope. Galileo's championing of Copernican heliocentrism was met with opposition from within the Catholic Church...
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  • emphasising that such a revolution is "incomplete." Freud, who repeatedly compared the psychoanalytic discovery to a Copernican revolution, was for Laplanche...
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    Galileo affair (category Copernican Revolution)
    computations that made use of Copernicus' work." Thomas Kuhn (1957). The Copernican Revolution. Harvard University Press. p. 125. Four Treatises for the Reconsideration...
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    Tychonic system (category Copernican Revolution)
    1588, which combines what he saw as the mathematical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical and "physical" benefits of the Ptolemaic...
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    Isaac Newton (category Copernican Revolution)
    time as a natural philosopher. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Newton's book Philosophiæ Naturalis...
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    had presented his geocentric model in the second century. This "Copernican Revolution" resolved the issue of planetary retrograde motion by arguing that...
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    In the Hipparchian, Ptolemaic, and Copernican systems of astronomy, the epicycle (from Ancient Greek ἐπίκυκλος (epíkuklos) 'upon the circle', meaning "circle...
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    Kepler's laws of planetary motion (category Copernican Revolution)
    Kepler's third law was published in 1619. Kepler had believed in the Copernican model of the Solar System, which called for circular orbits, but he could...
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    And yet it moves (category Copernican Revolution)
    "And yet it moves" or "Although it does move" (Italian: E pur si muove or Eppur si muove [epˈpur si ˈmwɔːve]) is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician...
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    Hans Lipperhey (category Copernican Revolution)
    Hans Lipperhey (c. 1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or simply Lippershey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly...
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    Tycho Brahe (category Copernican Revolution)
    Scientific Revolution. An heir to several noble families, Tycho was well educated. He worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of Copernican heliocentrism...
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  • spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers, string theory has...
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    Sidereus Nuncius (category Copernican Revolution)
    accepted the Copernican heliocentric system as strictly mathematical and hypothetical. However, once Galileo began to speak of the Copernican system as fact...
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