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Copernican Revolution

The "Copernican Revolution" is a pivotal theoretical framework within the history of science, specifically a heliocentric model of the universe, that fundamentally repositions the Sun at the center of the cosmos with the Earth and other planets orbiting it, thereby displacing the long-standing geocentric paradigm.

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12.3K

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155

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98

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2017–2026

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Copernicanism

Parents

Publications

169

Speakable and Unspeakable in Quatum Mechanics

J. S. Bell, N. David Mermin · Physics Today · 1988 · 3.1K citations

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The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought

Herbert Butterfield, Thomas Kühn · The American Historical Review · 1958 · 852 citations

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Civil imagination: a political ontology of photography

Choice Reviews Online · 2013 · 507 citations

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‘Earth system’ analysis and the second Copernican revolution

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber · Nature · 1999 · 496 citations · Full text

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The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory

Robert S. Westman · Isis · 1975 · 295 citations

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Authors

155

  1. PB
    Peter Barker

    University of Oklahoma, United States

    5 publications · 146 citations

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  2. OG
    Owen Gingerich

    Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, United States

    5 publications · 161 citations

    5

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  3. CM
    Christopher M. Graney

    Jefferson Community and Technical College, United States

    4 publications · 98 citations

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  4. RS
    Robert S. Westman

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    3 publications · 356 citations

    3

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  5. BR
    Bernard R. Goldstein

    University of Pittsburgh, United States

    3 publications · 104 citations

    3

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Institutions

98

  1. University of Oklahoma

    Norman, United States

    5 h-index

    5 publications

    162 citations

  2. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    104 citations

  3. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

    Berlin, Germany

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    104 citations

  4. University of Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    104 citations

  5. City University of New York

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    29 citations

  6. University of the Basque Country

    Leioa, Spain

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  7. Ball (France)

    Dunkirk, France

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    51 citations

  8. Universitat de Barcelona

    Barcelona, Spain

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    54 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 26 publications · 2.2K citations

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  2. Journal for the History of Astronomy

    JHA · 9 publications · 294 citations

    9

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  3. The British Journal for the History of Science

    BJHS · 6 publications · 165 citations

    6

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  4. Journal of the History of Ideas

    JHI · 6 publications · 226 citations

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  5. Isis

    5 publications · 405 citations

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