Tag Archives: Nicholas Copernicus

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: beware of unnamed shooting stars…

The Copernican Revolution took a trajectory that would have made Copernicus do an orbit in his grave…wayward comets and and an earth displaced from the center of the universe, wandering in orbit through space trying to establish an identity… …The … 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: 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: 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: 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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copernicus: back to the star garden

Man and thereby the earth not the center of the universe. Surely you must be joking. The Copernican revolution. The continuing adventures of Nick “Dark Energy” Copernicus… …But this itself was far from unknown, and in 1533 Pope Clement VII … Continue reading

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