IGNOU FST 1 2012 - What is revolutionary about the Copernican Revolution? Describe in aro

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What is revolutionary about the Copernican Revolution? Describe in around 100 words our current understanding of the physical structure of the universe.

23 Nov 2017

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Word Count : 333

The story of Copernican Revolution is the classic example of a major shift in worldview. The 16th century finally saw what came to be a watershed in the development of Cosmology. In 1543 Nicolas Copernicus published his treatise De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (The Revolution of Celestial Spheres) where a new view of the world is presented: the heliocentric model.

It is hard to underestimate the importance of this work: it challenged the age long views of the way the universe worked and the preponderance of the Earth and, by extension, of human beings. The realization that we,

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