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	The Copernican Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The revolution of knowledge that began with the publication of "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres" and led to the further discoveries by Johann Kepler (1571-1630), Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), and Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is rightly termed "The Copernican Revolution".
		The value of the Copernican Revolution, however, does not end in the fact that Copernicus brought about a complete shift in man's philosophical conception of the universe.
		There is a subtle but unmistakable distinction between the two, and that distinction is what the Copernican Revolution exemplified in the history of human consciousness.
	www.neo-tech.com /zero/part1.html (1157 words)

	Copernican Revolution
		It enabled the true status of the Earth, as an ordinary planet, to be realized and marked the beginning of the end for the belief that there was a fundamental division between the nature of things terrestrial and extraterrestrial.
		Copernicanism was opposed partly on the ground that it assigned too dignified and lofty a position to his dwelling place.
		Those who were among the first to voice support and provide further evidence for the Copernican system, including Galileo, were not generally inclined to say much about its implications for extraterrestrial life, though Bruno was an early exception.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/C/CoperRev.html (621 words)

	Chapter 5 -- SHP
		The story of the Copernican Revolution is not...simply a story of astronomers and the skies....No fundamental astronomical discovery, no new sort of astronomical observation, persuaded Copernicus of ancient astronomy's inadequacy or of the necessity for change.
		To fully understand the Copernican revolution, and to be historically honest, one must understand that in spite of some problems, there were sound scientific reasons for the Church to accept an Earth-centered system.
		It is a myth to believe that the Copernican system was simpler in the sense of using fewer circles, or that the followers of Ptolemy were adding epicycles to epicycles to account for observational discrepancies.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /~pine/book1qts/chapter5qts.html (16156 words)

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		Using these terms, the story I tell is that the scientific revolution in the 17th century, was the revolt of the informationist ideology against the anti-informationist ideologies of nature and science that ruled until then.
		This second revolution was therefore the polar opposite of the first revolution, even though the Kantian coherence criterion was the direct heir of Copernicus’ harmony.
		Brutalism: an ethical epilogue What will be: The third revolution, within which were formulated the principles of actualism and their most typical formalistic and linguistic versions, characterises not merely the impoverishment of the philosophy of science in the 20th century.
	www.tau.ac.il /~bechler/docs/synops1.doc (4267 words)

	The Copernican Revolution
		And, by using Tycho's planetary observations as a foundation for his own work--in particular, Tycho's observational data of the planet Mars--Johannes Kepler was able to derive his three laws of planetary motion.
		When he observed the moon with his occiale (i.e., telescope) he saw that, contrary to the Aristotelian view that all celestial objects were smooth and perfect, it was covered with craters and mountains.
		Kepler and Galileo were two of the greatest defenders of the Copernican model and their work helped establish the Copernican vision of a heliocentric system as scientific fact, in place of the archaic, Ptolemaic (geocentric) system.
	hometown.aol.com /ericfdiaz/copernicanrevolution.html (1034 words)

	The Copernican Revolution 1543
		One of the greatest innovations was Kepler's discovery that the planets move in ellipses, and not circles.
		sufficiently admire the outstanding acumen of those who have taken hold of this opinion [Copernicanism] and accepted it is true; they have through sheer force of intellect done such violence to their own senses as to prefer what reason told them over that which sensible experience plainly showed them to the contrary.
		He was forced to publicly withdraw his support for the Copernican system, and was put under house arrest by the Inquisition.
	www.chsbs.cmich.edu /john_wright/copernican_revolution_1543.htm (3071 words)

	Epilogue from The Passion of the Western Mind
		For when Copernicus recognized that the Earth was not the absolute fixed center of the universe, and, equally important, when he recognized that the movement of the heavens could be explained in terms of the movement of the observer, he brought forth what was perhaps the pivotal insight of the modern mind.
		Descartes was in this sense the crucial midpoint between Copernicus and Kant, between the Copernican revolution in cosmology and the Copernican revolution in epistemology.
		Thus the Copernican revolution that emerged during the Renaissance and Reformation perfectly reflected the archetypal moment of modern humanity's birth out of the ancient-medieval cosmic-ecclesiastical womb.
	www.gaiamind.org /Tarnas.html (8366 words)

	The Galileo Project \| Science \| Copernican System
		In Copernican astronomy one now had to assume that the orbit of the Earth was as a point with respect to the fixed stars, and because the fixed stars did not reflect the Earth's annual motion by showing an annual parallax, the sphere of the fixed stars had to be immense.
		In this system the elegance and harmony of the Copernican system were married to the solidity of a central and stable Earth so that Aristotelian physics could be maintained.
		During the sixteenth century the Copernican issue was not considered important by the Church and no official pronouncements were made.
	galileo.rice.edu /sci/theories/copernican_system.html (2158 words)

	Lecture 6:Copernican Revolution
		Slide # 1: Lecture 6: The Copernican Revolution
		Slide # 4: The Copernican Revolution: A Brief Historical Overview
		Slide # 51: Lecture 6: The Copernican Revolution
	astro.gmu.edu /classes/a10594/notes/l06/l06.html (385 words)

	The Copernican Model: A Sun-Centered Solar System
		The Copernican system by banishing the idea that the Earth was the center of the Solar System, immediately led to a simple explanation of both the varying brightness of the planets and retrograde motion:
		As a consequence, the Copernican model, with it assumption of uniform circular motion, still could not explain all the details of planetary motion on the celestial sphere without epicycles.
		We may also note that the Copernican model implicitly questions the third tenet that the objects in the sky were made of special unchanging stuff.
	csep10.phys.utk.edu /astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html (863 words)

	The Copernican Revolution
		It is hard to underestimate the importance of this work: it challenged the age long views of the way the universe worked and the preponderance of the Earth and, by extension, of human beings.
		In fact it was Bruno's advocacy of the Copernican system that produced one of the strongest reactions by the Church: Bruno advocated not only the heliocentric model, but denied that objects posses a natural motion, denied the existence of a center of the universe, denying even the Sun of a privileged place in the cosmos.
		The slow progress of the heliocentric model was also apparent among part of the scientific community of the time; in particular Tycho Brahe, the best astronomer of the late 16th century, was opposed to it.
	phyun5.ucr.edu /~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node41.html (1005 words)

	Nicolaus Copernicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century BC had developed some theories of Heraclides Ponticus (speaking of a revolution by Earth on its axis) to propose what was, so far as is known, the first serious model of a heliocentric solar system.
		Copernicanism, however, also opened a way to immanence, the view that a divine force, or a divine being, pervades all things that exist — a view that has since been developed further in modern philosophy.
		The publication of his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is often taken to be the beginning of the Scientific Revolution, together with the publication of the De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius [4].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Copernicus (4973 words)

	Skyscript: The Copernican Revolution by David Plant
		The Sun-centred or heliocentric theory of the solar system is usually associated with the 16th century Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543).
		Of those who did, most regarded the Copernican system as a useful calculation device rather than a serious theory of the structure of the solar system.
		The literally earth-shaking implications of the Copernican revolution did not begin to emerge until the work of Galileo and Kepler at the beginning of the 17th century.
	skyscript.co.uk /copernicus.html (2448 words)

	The Copernican Revolution
		(from The Copernican Revolution, 42-44, in Pine, 138).
		Moved by the beauty and harmonious relations of the Copernican system, he decided to devote himself to the search for whatever additional geometrical harmonies the data supplied by Tycho Brahe's observations might suggest and, beyond that, to find the mathematical relations binding all the phenomena of nature to each other.
		The geographical explorations, the Protestant Revolution, and so many other exciting movements were challenging conservatism and complacency, that one new theory did not have to bear the brunt of the natural opposition to change.
	www.drury.edu /ess/philsci/PineCh4.html (5389 words)

	Comments on, "Metaphysics and The Copernican Revolution: An Essay"
		Comments on, "Metaphysics and The Copernican Revolution: An Essay" __________________________________________________________________ Jonathan M. Smith Department of Geography Texas A&M J0S7507@tamvm1.tamu.edu (received: February 15, 1995) I would like to comment briefly on a remark of Lynette Gelinas in the December issue of METAPHYSICAL REVIEW.
		She writes: "those of us accustomed to living in a heliocentric system understand that Copernicus' model was infinitely better than Ptolemy's." Since Ptolemy was a geographer (as am I), I must say some words in his defense.
		This is not to deny its significance for astronomy, physics, cosmography, etc., but only to underline the fact that the Copernican revolution changed very little in the everyday lives of ordinary people.
	www.vivboard.net /doc/n002f.htm (626 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Copernican Revolution : Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought by ...
		For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today.
		With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Mr.
		Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man's concept of his relation to the universe and to God.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/KUHCOX.html (455 words)

	Heliocentrism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The favored system had been that of Ptolemy, in which the Earth was the center of the universe and all celestial bodies orbited it.
		In the Inquisition's formal charges he was not accused of violating a papal decree; rather, the charges condemned his holding of "a false doctrine taught by many, namely, that the sun is immovable in the center of the world, and that the earth moves".
		The relation of the two pictures [geocentricity and heliocentricity] is reduced to a mere coordinate transformation and it is the main tenet of the Einstein theory that any two ways of looking at the world which are related to each other by a coordinate transformation are entirely equivalent from a physical point of view.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heliocentric (3421 words)

	Metaphysics and The Copernican Revolution: An Essay
		Metaphysics and The Copernican Revolution: An Essay ___________________________________________________ Lynette Gelinas Department of Physics University of New Hampshire Durham, New Hampshire 03824 ljg@curie.unh.edu (received November 30, 1994) Metaphysics is a difficult subject to comprehend, much less write about.
		Confronted with what turned out to be too much material, I chose to concentrate on the Copernican revolution, but even this narrow subject proved too complex.
		He proposed the diurnal rotation of the earth about its axis, and the revolution of the earth and all the planets about the sun, which he proposed to be at the center of the universe.
	www.vivboard.net /doc/n002c.htm (1805 words)

	Lecture 11 - The Copernican Revolution (2/7/96)
		In fact, the Ptolemaic model, with its large numbers of adjustable parameters, was able to predict planetary positions better than the simpler (but still incorrect) Copernican model.
		The death of the Ptolemaic system and the rise of the "Copernican" system was long and tortured - the Ptolemaic system was still being taught in the first years at Harvard after it was founded in 1836!
		The philosophical implication of the Copernican model were huge.
	www.aoc.nrao.edu /~smyers/courses/astro01/L11.html (1037 words)

	Amazon.com: The Copernican Revolution: Books: Thomas S. Kuhn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was a fundamental change in thinking that made up the subject of The Copernican Revolution, Thomas Kuhn's look at the break between ancient and modern thinking on the subject.
		Indeed, the Copernican revolution fits well with that model; it was a revolutionary idea that marked a turning point in Western science, straddling both the ancient and modern viewpoints.
		The author gives thorough discussion about what Copernican revolution really is, who were the key players and how each contributed to the overall progress.
	www.amazon.com /Copernican-Revolution-Thomas-S-Kuhn/dp/1567312179 (1672 words)

	English 233: A New Cosmos -- The Copernican Revolution
		For the first major intellectual upheaval of the modern era was the process by which the Aristotelean-Ptolematic picture of the cosmic structure came to be replaced, for the intelligentsia of Europe, by the "Copernican" (or, more properly, perhaps, the Newtonian-Copernican) model.
		Important episodes in the unfolding of the Copernican Revolution (which really entails an evolution in both astronomy and physics), and
		Pay special attention to Figures 15.1 (Peter Apian's schematic diagram of the Aristotelian model of the universe [2]), 5.2 (Thomas Digges' diagram version of the Copernican hypothesis), 15.7 (the engraving of Leclerc's painting of Louis XIV at the Académie des Sciences [3]), and 15.8 (the frontispiece to Fontenelle's Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds).
	www.k-state.edu /english/baker/english233/cosmos1.htm (712 words)

	Mitch Lopate Social Studies Lesson Plan, Thematic Unit, Activity, Worksheet, or Civics, American History, or Government ...
		To introduce students to the Copernican Revolution and the differences between medieval perspectives about the origins and nature of the universe.
		Students will criticize or defend Copernicus to an audience living in the Renaissance by describing the significant facts of the Copernican Revolution through an editorial presentation of three minutes in a clear, concise manner with 100% accuracy.
		After reviewing a sample editorial on video, students will listen and appraise the speaker's clarity of thought with a rubric as he or she performs his or her presentation to the class.
	www.lessonplanspage.com /SSRenaissanceUnit4CopernicanRevolution8.htm (1045 words)

	Ilham Dilman - Wittgenstein's Copernican Revolution: The Question of Linguistic Idealism - Reviewed by Eric Loomis, ...
		Wittgensteinâs Copernican Revolution, in Dilmanâs view, is the position that âour language is not founded on an empirical reality with which we are in contact through sense perception.
		Kantâs ârevolutionâ rejects this dilemma as false and instead argues that while the form of our empirical knowledge and experience is indeed a contribution of the mind, the intuited âcontentâ of that knowledge is both necessary for it and a product of factors other than the mind.
		Which is a pity, because the opening chapters of this book offer much to like, and this only makes it harder to watch as Dilman gets entangled in the very knots he wants to cut.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1120 (2247 words)

	Filozofski vestnik XXIV, št. 2/2003
		The Copernican revolution of the 1500s and 1600s was in large part due to new theories and discoveries, which indicated that the general view of the universe – the more or less Aristotelian, teleological view – was no longer viable.
		The paper considers the Copernicanism of Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) as a central moment of his philosophy of nature, concentrating on his two principal cosmological works, La cena de le ceneri (The Ash Wednesday Supper), written and published in London in 1584, and the Latin De immenso, published in Frankfurt in 1591.
		The real revolution is the replacement of the methods and goals of Ptolemaic astronomy and Aristotelian physics with Copernicanism in its modern form, which incorporates the conceptual structure of Kepler and the astronomical evidence of Galileo.
	www.zrc-sazu.si /fi/filvest/Vestniki/filve204.htm (2539 words)

	Notes 2: Copernican Revolution (Gravity and Motion) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Copernican model, the Earth and planets orbit the Sun, while the Moon orbits the Earth.
		Parallax is measuring the distance to an object by measuring the apparent change in position angle of that object as you move.
		He found that he could make the Copernican model work, without epicycles, if planetary orbits were ellipses, not circles.
	www.twcac.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Tutorials/notes(2).htm (663 words)

	Copernican Revolution
		Galileo argued that the Copernican view of the universe could be empirically verified through astronomical observations.
		A Copernican revolution of one sort or another is unavoidable.
		We can learn to be a family; a beloved community, if we are willing to undergo a Copernican revolution and other irritating changes.
	www.tvuuc.org /minister/copernican.html (2188 words)

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