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Copernican system   /kəpˈərnəkən sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Copernican system

noun
1.
(astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun.





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"Copernican system" Quotes from Famous Books



... went thither, confident that he would be able to convince the ecclesiastical authorities of the manifest truth of Copernicanism. He did not realize what theology was capable of. In February 1616 the Holy Office decided that the Copernican system was in itself absurd, and, in respect of Scripture, heretical. Cardinal Bellarmin, by the Pope's direction, summoned Galileo and officially admonished him to abandon his opinion and cease to teach it, otherwise ...
— A History of Freedom of Thought • John Bagnell Bury
... for that year at least, in the alternation of the four seasons; while an enforced absence from that damply delightful watering-place for two successive summers very probably would lead to a rejection of the entire Copernican system. ...
— The Uncle Of An Angel - 1891 • Thomas A. Janvier


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