The great Copernican cliché

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Oct 2001

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American Journal of Physics, Volume 69, Issue 10, pp. 1029-1035 (2001).

Physics

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Educational Aids, Celestial Mechanics

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For more than three centuries scientists, historians, and popularizers of science have been repeating the claim that Copernicus ``dethroned'' earth from its ``privileged'' central position in the universe. However, a survey of pre-Copernican natural philosophy (which viewed the earth as located in a cosmic sump) and of Copernicans' own account of the axiological meaning of the new heliocentric astronomy (which exalted earth to the dance of the stars) demonstrates that the cliché about earth's ``demotion'' is unwarranted and fit to be discarded.

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