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Copernican system
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Copernican system
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(Astronomy) the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus (1473-1543) which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system
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Noun1.Copernican system - (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sunCopernican system - (astronomy) Copernicus' astronomical model in which the Earth rotates around the sun
framework, model, theoretical account - a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems"
astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
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It was clear that Copernicus could not have used the original Ptolemaic models inherited from the Greeks, or he could not have made his heliocentric system work.
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What I propose is a much simpler, heliocentric system, with the sun as center.
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Although Copernicus had provided a new heliocentric system of the world in 1543, the dominant interpretation of his work in Northern Europe was developed by the students and colleagues of Philipp Melanchthon at the University of Wittenberg.
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