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Copernicus as in: Nicolaus Copernicus
Some credit Copernicus with creating a paradigm shift to objectivity that began the Scientific Revolution.
Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun (rather than the earth) at the center (1473-1543)
Probably more credit should go to Greek, Indian and Muslim astronomers who published heliocentric hypotheses centuries before Copernicus. However, these theories were published centuries before Copernicus, little of the work survived, and few besides Copernicus had read it. Accordingly, Copernicus’ scientifically based theory was viewed as revolutionary and convincing.
Some credit Copernicus with creating a paradigm shift to objectivity that began the Scientific Revolution.
And Copernicus.
Madeleine L’Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time
Copernicus did!
Rebecca Stead -- When You Reach Me
These would be the same who dismissed Copernicus and Darwin.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
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CYRANO: Copernicus Said….
Edmond Rostand -- Cyrano de Bergerac
Outspoken scientists like Copernicus-
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
But even after the discovery of the law of Copernicus the Ptolemaic worlds were still studied for a long time.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
Where are the craters? I can’t see Kepler, Copernicus or even Tycho.
Micheal Scott -- The Alchemyst
BIBLIOTECA ASTRONOMICA Aringarosa had heard of this place—the Vatican’s Astronomy Library—rumored to contain more than twenty-five thousand volumes, including rare works of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Secchi.
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code
It was written by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who died on the day the book was published.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie’s World
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On the right-hand wall of the vestibule, just inside the doors, there was a mural of the history of great ideas, beginning with a drawing of Moses holding the Ten Commandments, going on to Jesus, Mohammed, Galileo, Luther, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, and ending with Einstein gazing at the formula E = MC2.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
By this he referred to Copernicus’ statement that the earth moves around the sun.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government
Copernicus will be routed by Ptolemy.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Would you like to ban Copernicus from the classroom, along with Charles Darvin?
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
Do you know what Goethe said about our friend Copernicus?
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
He read the classics of physical science: Copernicus and Galileo, Lavoisier, Newton, LaPlace, Descartes, Faraday.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
But Copernicus would not have written love stories scientifically.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Pythagoras[186] was misunderstood, and Socrates,[187] and Jesus, and Luther,[188] and Copernicus,[189] and Galileo,[190] and Newton,[191] and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
Building on the work of predecessors such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler, he laid out the principles of his laws of motion, the universal theories that tied the work of these great minds together.
Annenberg Learner -- Amusement Park Physics
Copernicus had no motive for misleading his fellowmen as to the place of the sun in the solar system: he looked for it as honestly as a shepherd seeks his path in a mist.
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
They regularly petition us for retraction of Creationist theory, formal apologies for Galileo and Copernicus, repeal of our criticism against dangerous or immoral research.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
The same Copernicus who concluded that our little earth was not—heaven forbid—the center of the solar system?
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
Copernicus claimed that it was not the sun that moved round the earth, it was vice versa.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie’s World
Copernicus challenged the way people viewed the world.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
BRAHE …. CLAVIUS …. COPERNICUS …. KEPLER …. NEWTON …. As he read the names again, he felt a sudden uneasiness.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Copernicus also believed that the earth and the other planets moved in circular orbits around the sun.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie’s World
By that he meant that it was just as new and just as radically different from former thinking as when Copernicus claimed that the earth revolved around the sun and not vice versa.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie’s World
What Copernicus did was take the existing a priori concept of the world, the notion that it was flat and fixed in space, and pose an alternative a priori concept of the world, that it’s spherical and moves around the sun; and showed that both of the a priori concepts fitted the existing sensory data.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Ptolemy believed that the sun, planets, and stars revolve around the earth; Copernicus taught that the planets revolve around the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
] [Footnote 189: Copernicus (1473-1543) discovered the error of the old Ptolemaic system of astronomy and showed that the sun is the centre of our planetary system.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
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.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
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.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
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.