How to Use Copernican in a Sentence
Copernican
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Believe it or not, the Copernican principle doesn’t even end there.
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Mario Livio,
Scientific American,
2023-04-19
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It's been a Copernican moment, akin to the demotion of the Earth from the center of the universe.
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Benj Edwards,
Ars Technica,
2023-11-16
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By the 1950s, the traditional Copernican orrery was in need of an electronic upgrade.
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IEEE Spectrum,
2023-10-01
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If parallaxes were easier to measure, the Copernican revolution might have happened sooner.
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Quanta Magazine,
2020-12-17
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Raskin believes that the ability to eavesdrop on animals will spur nothing less than a paradigm shift as historically significant as the Copernican revolution.
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Camille Bromley,
WIRED,
2023-08-29
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