Whatever might be said to accord faith and Copernicus, religion depends for its myth on a certain sense of scale.

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Aristarchus Plateau is the primary location for these transient events, says Crotts, followed by the craters of Plato, Grimaldi, Kepler, Copernicus and Tycho.

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Clavius started his career by taking on the reform of the Gregorian calendar, a project partly inspired by Copernicus and his book.

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Clavius, a Jesuit who taught at the Collegio Romano in Rome, is often remembered as an early skeptic in the great battle over Copernicus and the heliocentric system.

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You could calculate, consider, and even hypothesize with Copernicus.

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Poles have been conspicuously reticent about trumpeting the Polishness of their famous countrymen, among them Copernicus, Marie Curie, Frederic Chopin and Joseph Conrad.

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Copernicus deduced that the planets revolved around the Sun, and finally refuted the belief that the Earth was the centre of the Universe.

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He reminds me a bit of Copernicus, who worked as an official of the Catholic Church, dedicated his book to the Pope, and in the book overturned centuries of Church teaching on how the heavens move.

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