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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, on the Earth or in the Solar System, are...
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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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    astronomer, and Catholic cleric, Nicolaus Copernicus, leading to the Copernican Revolution. In the following century, Johannes Kepler introduced elliptical...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    completely separated in Europe (see astrology and astronomy) during the Copernican Revolution starting in 1543. In some cultures, astronomical data was used for...
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  • Newton's laws of motion (category Copernican Revolution)
    Newton's laws of motion are three laws that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws, which provide...
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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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    Geocentric model (category Copernican Revolution)
    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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    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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    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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    Tychonic system (category Copernican Revolution)
    century, 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    from the Ptolemaic geocentric model to a heliocentric model. The Copernican Revolution, as this paradigm shift would come to be called, would last until...
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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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    Isaac Newton (category Copernican Revolution)
    time as a natural philosopher. He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. His pioneering book Philosophiæ Naturalis...
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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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    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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    Hans Lipperhey (category Copernican Revolution)
    Hans Lipperhey (c. 1570 – buried 29 September 1619), also known as Johann Lippershey or Lippershey, was a German-Dutch spectacle-maker. He is commonly...
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    Finding Our Place in the Solar System: The Scientific Story of the Copernican Revolution. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 9781107182295. Archived...
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  • ancient times. The modern form of the concept emerged when the Copernican Revolution demonstrated that the Earth was a planet revolving around the Sun...
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  • M. A. Orr, Dante and the Medieval Astronomers (1956) Thomas Kuhn, The Copernican Revolution (1957) The Geocentric or Ptolemaic Notion of the Universe...
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