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2 articles for "Copernican"

Copernican System [DeVore]

From Copernicus, an astronomer of Prussian birth (1493-1543), who was the first to show that all the observed motions of the planets could be explained by a diurnal rotation of the Earth on its axis, and a concept of the Sun as the centre around which the Earth and the other planets revolve. He was partially anticipated by Pythagoras, who taught a heliocentric system of astronomy.

See also:
♦ Copernicus, Nicolas
Copernican Theory [Astro*Index]

Proposed by Nicolas Copernicus, the cosmology in which the Earth makes a daily rotation on its axis while all the planets orbit the Sun

See also:
♦ Copernicus, Nicolas

 

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