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- proper noun The
paradigm shift , from thePtolemaic model of the heavens based around theEarth to aheliocentric model, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus and later supported by Galileo Galilei and others
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The very source of the Copernican Revolution was a Christian who believed the universe was the handiwork of God.
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This so-called Copernican Revolution in philosophy amounts to a radical rethink of what it is to be an object.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This so-called Copernican Revolution in philosophy amounts to a radical rethink of what it is to be an object.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This so-called Copernican Revolution in philosophy amounts to a radical rethink of what it is to be an object.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This so-called Copernican Revolution in philosophy amounts to a radical rethink of what it is to be an object.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Darwin completed the Copernican Revolution by extending that commitment to the living world.
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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The Copernican Revolution consisted in a commitment to the postulate that the universe is governed by natural laws that account for natural phenomena.
Francisco Jose Ayala: Darwin's Gift: To Science and Religion - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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But Schillebeeckx is convinced that scriptural scholarship and Christianity in general are living through a Copernican Revolution which makes the culture (if not the message) of the New Testament far stranger to modern man than Catholic scholars have generally admitted.
Quo Vadis, Wojtyla? Sheehan, Thomas 1980
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The enormity of the revolution set off in philosophy by Immanuel Kant was comparable, in Kant's own estimation, with the Copernican Revolution that ended the Middle Ages.
AvaxHome RSS: 2009
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In the standard story, it is common for the Copernican Revolution to be cast as a battle between science and the Church or between reason and dogma.
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