What is "copernican"

Usage examples of "copernican".

It was a simple, geocentric, Copernican model, based on Euclidean geometry and Newtonian mechanics.

Galileo engaged in a protracted controversy on the priority of discovery and the nature of sunspots with yet another Jesuit priest, Christopher Scheiner, which developed into a bitter personal antagonism and which is thought by many historians of science to have contributed to the house arrest of Galileo, the proscription of his books, and his confession, extracted under threat of torture by the Inquisition, that his previous Copernican writings were heretical and that Earth did not move.

Like the Copernican shift from a geocentric to a heliocentric view of the solar system, the shift from scientific materialism to radical empiricism entails a shift from a matter-centered concept of reality to a holistic view of mental and physical phenomena as dependently related events.

And Galileo, who prided himself on having long since discovered and published everything worth saying about sunspots, presently began to see a new significance in their behavior that could confirm the Copernican world system.

And a caviller might raise all the same objections to the Copernican system, which you have urged against my reasonings.

I also propose in this preface my own view of metaphysics, which has so many analogies with the Copernican hypothesis, as an hypothesis only, though, in the Critique itself, it is proved by means of our representations of space and time, and the elementary concepts of the understanding, not hypothetically, but apodictically.

And it was the Brunonian revolution, not the Copernican, that jolted Europe into the modern age (and that, not incidentally, brought Bruno to the attention of the Inquisition, and he was eventually burned at the stake).

As acceptance of the Copernican system grew, the Earth was added to the list of planets, and the Sun and Moon were removed.

As those adept at numerological mysticism adjusted to the Copernican system, this self-indulgent mode of thinking spilled over from planets to moons.

In a sense, the Copernican system itself was not a crucial change.

The Copernican system showed that the earth is not the center of the universe, and suggested to a few bold spirits that perhaps man was not the supreme purpose of the Creator.

One of them, Cleanthes, wanted Aristarchus persecuted for advocating the Copernican system of astronomy.

I daresay, once we begin to get insight into that mentality, our psychological science will go through its Copernican revolution.