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Copernican system   /kəpˈərnəkən sˈɪstəm/   Listen
Copernican system

noun
1.
(astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun.





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... his mission was introduced and attested—a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and rest to their inquiries. It is idle to say that a future state had been discovered already. It had been discovered as the Copernican System was; it was one guess amongst many. He alone discovers who PROVES; and no man can prove this point but the teacher who testifies by miracles that his doctrine comes from God' (Book V. ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell


Words linked to "Copernican system" :   theoretical account, uranology, model, framework, astronomy


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