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The paradigm shift, from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens based around the Earth to a heliocentric model, proposed by and later supported by and others
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Copernican Revolution — For the 1957 book by Thomas Kuhn, see The Copernican Revolution (book). For metaphorical uses of the term, see Copernican Revolution (metaphor). Motion of Sun, Earth, and Mars according to heliocentrism (left) and to geocentrism (right), before… … Wikipedia
Copernican Revolution (metaphor) — The Copernican Revolution, which in terms of astronomy amounted to the acceptance of heliocentrism as suggested by Nicolaus Copernicus, has also been used widely as a metaphor supporting descriptions of modernity. A particularly prominent case… … Wikipedia
Copernican revolution — Copernicus made the perceived revolution of the heavens into a function of the actual revolutions of the perceiver. In the Preface to the Critique of Pure Reason (2nd edn, B xvi), Kant uses this as an analogy to describe how progress in… … Philosophy dictionary
Kant’s Copernican revolution — Daniel Bonevac Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was to transform the philosophical world, at once bringing the Enlightenment to its highest intellectual development and establishing a new set of problems that would dominate philosophy in… … History of philosophy
The Copernican Revolution (book) — The Copernican Revolution (1962), by Thomas Kuhn, is an analysis of the historical shift in the scientific understanding of planetary movement … Wikipedia
Copernican heliocentrism — Heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus orbium coelestium Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. It positioned the Sun near the center of… … Wikipedia
Copernican principle — In physical cosmology, the Copernican principle, named after Nicolaus Copernicus, states that the Earth is not in a central, specially favored position.[1] More recently, the principle has been generalized to the relativistic concept that humans… … Wikipedia
Copernican — adjective Etymology: Nicolaus Copernicus Date: 1667 1. of or relating to Copernicus or the belief that the earth rotates daily on its axis and the planets revolve in orbits around the sun 2. of radical or major importance or degree < effected a… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Copernican — adjective 1. of radical or major importance a Copernican revolution in modern art • Similar to: ↑important, ↑of import 2. according to Copernicus in the Copernican system the earth and other planets revolve around the sun • Similar to: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
revolution — noun Etymology: Middle English revolucioun, from Middle French revolution, from Late Latin revolution , revolutio, from Latin revolvere to revolve Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) the action by a celestial body of going round in an orbit or… … New Collegiate Dictionary
