Tag Archives: Geocentrism

copernicus: going rogue on relative motion

A little errant goes a long orbit. Displacing man from the center of the universe. What began as some computational sleights of hand to help the Church with calendar problems soon assumed a life of its own. The earth was … Continue reading

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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 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: dawn of dark energy

Displacing man from the center of the universe and the earth as well. The stirrings of humanism and the Renaissance began to be felt… …Whatever may have been the reaction later, those who first saw the sketch of the future … Continue reading

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