All 4 Uses of
Copernicus
in
War and Peace
- From the time the law of Copernicus was discovered and proved, the mere recognition of the fact that it was not the sun but the earth that moves sufficed to destroy the whole cosmography of the ancients.†
Chpt 15
- But even after the discovery of the law of Copernicus the Ptolemaic worlds were still studied for a long time.†
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- To the defenders of the laws of Copernicus and Newton, to Voltaire for example, it seemed that the laws of astronomy destroyed religion, and he utilized the law of gravitation as a weapon against religion.†
Chpt 15
- So too, like Voltaire in his time, uninvited defenders of the law of inevitability today use that law as a weapon against religion, though the law of inevitability in history, like the law of Copernicus in astronomy, far from destroying, even strengthens the foundation on which the institutions of state and church are erected.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(Copernicus as in: Nicolaus Copernicus) Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun (rather than the earth) at the center (1473-1543)