Copernican Revolution

Proper noun

Meaning

Copernican Revolution

The paradigm shift, from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens based around the Earth to a heliocentric model, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus and later supported by Galileo and others.

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Examples

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. Bryan Magee

Kuhn's revolution was not yet a Kuhnian revolution, although he dated his intention to write the book that became Structure to the time of his wrestle with Aristotle. What he needed was a historical exemplar. He found it in the Copernican revolution. John L. Heilbron

The Copernican Revolution dethroned Earth to just one of many planets orbiting the Sun. Source: Internet

RITHOLTZ: We are in the middle of the Copernican Revolution about the proper way to invest or at least the rational way to invest. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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