It will be called "copernicium", with the symbol Cp, in honour of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
Copernicus' heliocentric system overthrew what was known as geocentrism the belief that everything in the universe revolved around the earth.
Whatever might be said to accord faith and Copernicus, religion depends for its myth on a certain sense of scale.
It was followed in 1976 by Dr Copernicus, the first in a series of novels exploring the lives of eminent scientists.
To say the telescope helped usher in a new age of astronomy based on the system of Copernicus would be an understatement.
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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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Poles have been conspicuously reticent about trumpeting the Polishness of their famous countrymen, among them Copernicus, Marie Curie, Frederic Chopin and Joseph Conrad.
Copernicus deduced that the planets revolved around the Sun, and finally refuted the belief that the Earth was the centre of the Universe.
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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Kepler encouraged Galileo to announce publicly his agreement with the sun-centered cosmology of the Polish astronomer monk Copernik, better known to history by the far less euphonious, Latinized name of Copernicus.
You could calculate, consider, and even hypothesize with Copernicus.
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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.
Economic thinkers since at least the time of, well Copernicus, have understood that national well-being derived from private individuals going out into the private world to produce goods and trade goods, an activity that for centuries has created wealth for many nations.
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