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American Journal of Physics -- October 2001 -- Volume 69, Issue 10, pp. 1029
The great Copernican cliché
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Add to FacebookFor more than three centuries scientists, historians, and popularizers of science have been repeating the claim that Copernicus “dethroned” earth from its “privileged” central position in the universe. However, a survey of pre-Copernican natural philosophy (which viewed the earth as located in a cosmic sump) and of Copernicans’ own account of the axiological meaning of the new heliocentric astronomy (which exalted earth to the dance of the stars) demonstrates that the cliché about earth’s “demotion” is unwarranted and fit to be discarded. © 2001 American Association of Physics Teachers.
© 2001 American Association of Physics Teachers
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Received Mar 2001
Accepted Apr 2001
Accepted Apr 2001
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