Word: copernican
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...fate of Giordano Bruno, Dominican pantheist, smiter of scholastic Aristotelianism, philosophical ancestor, in some regards, of Spinoza, is known "to every schoolboy," at least in the Macaulay School. The blind self-slain Chancellor, the great Dominican heretic, Copernican, metaphysician, the supreme schoolman, are strange comrades, vivid to the imagination. Two of them are instinct with the Virgilian tenderness, in that city of Virgil, of "mentem mortalia tangunt." --New York Times...
...clock.--Astronomical Laboratory. "The Rise of Copernican Astronomy" by Professor H. T. Stetson, Astronomy...
...manifest. In so many ages it ought to have brought men to an earlier knowledge of learning and opened the way to the new discoveries in science. Instead the Roman Church retarded science in every possible way. It pronounced strong opinions, but wrong ones. Gallileo was persecuted, and the Copernican theory pronounced false and heretical. How can a church be infallible, which has made so many blunders? It has decreed the absolute verbal inspiration of the Bible, which every biblical scholar knows is not the fact, declared that the scriptures should be interpreted by the Church Fathers, and ordained that...