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Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun (rather than the earth) at the center (1473-1543)
- By this he referred to Copernicus' statement that the earth moves around the sun.Part 2 (45% in)
- 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.Part 2 (45% in)
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