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Definition of Copernican system
1. Noun. (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun.
Definition of Copernican system
1. Noun. (astronomy) A heliocentric model of the solar system, proposed in the 16th Century by the eponymous astronomer. ¹
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Literary usage of Copernican system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Melanchthon, although acknowledging the purely astronomical advantages of the
Copernican system, strongly combatted the hypothesis of the Earth's motion ..."
2. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1858)
"Were the Papal Edicts against the Copernican system repealed ? ADMIRAL SMYTH, in
his Cycle of Celestial Objects, vol. ip 65, says —"At length, in 1818, ..."
3. History of the Inductive Sciences from the Earliest to the Present Time by William Whewell (1857)
"... if men did not cherish the hope to read the Future in the skies 1' Were the
Papal Edicts against the Copernican system repealed ? ..."
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 ..."
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