Definition of Copernican

1. Adjective. Of radical or major importance. "A Copernican revolution in modern art"

Similar to: Important, Of Import

2. Adjective. According to Copernicus. "In the Copernican system the earth and other planets revolve around the sun"
Similar to: Heliocentric

Definition of Copernican

1. a. Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

Definition of Copernican

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the influential astronomer. ¹

2. Adjective. Or of pertaining to one or more of his theories. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Copernican

Coorgs
Coosa
Coosa River
CopA ATPase
CopB ATPase
Copacabana
Cope's clamp
Copehan
Copeland
Copenhagen
Copenhagen blue
Copenhagen blues
Copenhagener
Copenhageners
Copepoda
Copernican
Copernican Revolution
Copernican system
Copernicanism
Copernicia
Copernicia alba
Copernicia australis
Copernicia cerifera
Copernicia prunifera
Copernicus
Copland
Copley
Copper State
Copperfield
Copperopolis

Literary usage of Copernican

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1858)
"Diffusion of the copernican Theory. THE diffusion of the copernican ... Bruno embraced the copernican opinions at an early period, and connected with them ..."

2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"Diffusion of the copernican Theory. THE diffusion of the copernican ... Bruno embraced the copernican opinions at an early period, and connected with them ..."

3. The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century by Owen Gingerich, Robert S. Westman (1988)
"See also Robert S. Westman, "The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the copernican Theory," bis, 66 (1975), ..."

4. A Plain Elementary and Practical System of Natural Experimental Philosophy by John Ewing (1809)
"We now assert farther, that these are just such as they ought to be, upon the supposition that the copernican system is true; and that they are inconsistent ..."

5. Evolution and Dogma by John Augustine Zahm (1896)
"Galileo and the copernican Theory. It is often said, even by those who should be better informed, that the greatest obstacle in the way of the general ..."

6. High-school Astronomy by Hiram Mattison (1872)
"The first prominent feature of the copernican system is, that the earth is a 1tp/we or globe, ... State the fir^t leading feature of tlie copernican theory. ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Copernican on Dictionary.com!Search for Copernican on Thesaurus.com!Search for Copernican on Google!Search for Copernican on Wikipedia!

Search