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copernicus: voyage to some distant planets

Copernicus argued that the earth was merely one of several planets that circled the sun. It was the Copernican Revolution and it displaced man from the center of the universe. It was the first flowering of the first stirrings of … Continue reading

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copernicus: suddenly the heavens were not perfect

The Copernican Revolution. Moving the earth away from the center of the universe had its consequences… …the heretical runaway monk and pantheistic philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in 1600, though not for accepting Copernicanism. But his death … Continue reading

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copernicus: earth as the lord’s moving footstool

The continuing saga of Copernicus and displacing the earth from the center of the universe. Of, course man was displaced as well, now an orbiting refugee and the light moral relativism found its way through the cracks in the foundation… … Continue reading

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copernicus and donuts: taking “me” out of the middle

Heliocentrism and geocentrism. How to reconcile divergent viewpoints that were never intended to be reconcile, for they represented thoroughly different values. Even Martin Luther was wary of the Copernican revolution, the end result being idol worship, the view that it … Continue reading

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copernicus: not hissed off the stage at first…

The Copernican Revolution. Moving man and the earth off center stage, the center of the universe. Finally published on the deathbed… …The departure of Georg Joachim Rheticus, though his name was never mentioned by his teacher seems to have decided … Continue reading

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copernicus: and the earth went mobile

The Copernican Revolution. Displacing man and the earth from the center of the universe… …The second important aspect of Copernicus’s work in which he differed from his predecessors is that, far from offering a hint or a suggestion or a … Continue reading

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young copernicus: for heaven’s sake

The man who displaced man and the earth from the center of the universe. So one day in 1509…It is thus clear that his friends knew of his astronomical preoccupations, and probably it was during these years that he planned … Continue reading

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copernicus: looking at motions of the moon

The Copernican Revolution. With modesty, Copernicus displaced man from the center of the universe… …Copernicus came from solid German merchant stock, but his uncle’s influence- Bishop Watzelrode undertook the education of his sister’s family when his brother-in-law died in 1483- … Continue reading

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diplacing man from the middle

Nicolaus Copernicus. He was called “incomparable astronomer” and was immensely respected, though controversial.After all, he displace man from the center of the universe as he pushed earth out of its traditional place; the pre-Copernican cosmos was generally held to consist … Continue reading

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copernican revolution

With priestly modesty, the canon of Frauenburg displaced man from the center of the universe… He was the only begetter of the Copernican Revolution, we say. He was the restorer of astronomy, a second Ptolemy, they said in the sixteenth … Continue reading

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