More important still, there in the sky was a miniature Copernican system, visible to the aided eye.

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The Obama administration is trying to pull us back into what astronomers would call the pre-Copernican world.

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The Jesuits were careful not to promote the Copernican system, still controversial in Europe after the condemnation of Galileo.

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He became an ever more convinced Copernican, but he had his crotchets.

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Or does it mean that the NCAA considering such other now obvious declarations such as proclaiming the earth round, recognizing Copernican theory or pardoning Galileo.

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Initially, the new paradigm is typically greeted with strong resistance both from the scientific community and even from other powers as in the case of the Copernican revolution.

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After all, the discovery of life on another planet would cause a profound shift in our world view, akin to the Copernican shift from an Earth-centric to a Sun-centric world.

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To the objections that the Copernican universe, with its vast spaces outside the solar system, is now too big to be beautiful, Galileo has his puppets ask, Too big for whom?

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