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Copernicus
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  • Would you like to ban Copernicus from the classroom, along with Charles Darvin?†   (source)
  • Some credit Copernicus with creating a paradigm shift to objectivity that began the Scientific Revolution.
  • Copernicus claimed that it was not the sun that moved round the earth, it was vice versa.†   (source)
  • He created a new log-in ID appropriate for his new role: Copernicus.†   (source)
  • "Ah, Copernicus, the man who crossed five eras!" someone shouted.†   (source)
  • Three Body: Copernicus, Universal Football, and Tri-Solar Day†   (source)
  • But in this civilization, Copernicus successfully revealed the basic structure of the universe.†   (source)
  • Copernicus challenged the way people viewed the world.†   (source)
  • Outspoken scientists like Copernicus-†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • They regularly petition us for retraction of Creationist theory, formal apologies for Galileo and Copernicus, repeal of our criticism against dangerous or immoral research.†   (source)
  • COPERNICUS ….†   (source)
  • Copernicus also believed that the earth and the other planets moved in circular orbits around the sun.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Honored Copernicus, rest your busy feet here a while," the old man said, after the giant moon had set.†   (source)
  • For example, Copernicus could figure out that there are three suns, and you could come up with your three laws.†   (source)
  • A man standing next to him nudged him lightly and spoke in a low voice, "Ah, Great Copernicus, why have you come so late?†   (source)
  • Excellent, Copernicus, excellent.†   (source)
  • Look further still—you might have to use the telescope for this—and there's the external storage, which we call the 'hard drive' at Copernicus's suggestion.†   (source)
  • Copernicus, you're a genius.†   (source)
  • The same Copernicus who concluded that our little earth was not—heaven forbid—the center of the solar system?†   (source)
  • But Copernicus would not have written love stories scientifically.†   (source)
  • CYRANO: Copernicus Said….†   (source)
  • Copernicus will be routed by Ptolemy.†   (source)
  • He read the classics of physical science: Copernicus and Galileo, Lavoisier, Newton, LaPlace, Descartes, Faraday.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • But even after the discovery of the law of Copernicus the Ptolemaic worlds were still studied for a long time.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Why does it always crucify Christ and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
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