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Definition of Copernican

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

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

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 (current term) 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. ..."

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