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Copernican
Copernican Co*per"ni*can, a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

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- Copernican means of or pertaining to the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). Copernican may also refer to: Copernican heliocentrism, the astronomical...
- The Copernican Revolution was the paradigm shift from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which described the cosmos as having Earth stationary at the...
- Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center...
- The Copernican Period in the lunar geologic timescale runs from approximately 1.1 billion years ago to the present day. The base of the Copernican period...
- universe? (more unsolved problems in physics) In physical cosmology, the Copernican principle states that humans, on the Earth or in the Solar System, are...
- astronomer, and Catholic cleric, Nicolaus Copernicus, leading to the Copernican Revolution. In the following century, Johannes Kepler introduced elliptical...
- Copernican system may refer to: Copernican heliocentrism Rocks on the Earth's moon deposited during the Copernican period This disambiguation page lists...
- in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution...
- The Copernican paradigm is series of models for an Australian republic that suggest only replacing the King, whilst retaining the governor-general and...
- 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...