Tag Archives: Tycho Brahe

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: adapting to infinity one star at a time

Dissenting from the truth of the Bible was a leap of faith for Copernicus. Tossing the earth into orbit and out of the center of the universe was to have its consequences… …Too much can be made of the reaction … 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: what goes around comes around

Copernicus displaced man and the earth from the center of the universe. The mobility of the earth became linked with moral relativity… …In this preface, which appeared along with Andreas Osiander’s, Copernicus gave his reasons for having attempted to reform … 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: 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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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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young copernicus: the heavens can wait

The Copernican revolution. Displacing man from the center of the universe… …But other things preoccupied him as well. In 1497 his uncle had succeeded in obtaining his election as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral, one of the chapter of ecclesiastics who, … Continue reading

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