Word: copernican
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...that for their Copernican heresies...
...visions of the future still mixed science with superstition, as was demonstrated by Nostradamus. A successful physician in 16th century France (for years he ministered to victims of the plague), he managed to believe both in scientific Copernican astronomy and in astrology. Eventually he turned to the occult. In seven volumes he foretold "the future events of the entire world" (according to his epitaph). In one of his obscure quatrains, he prophesied that in 1999, "from the sky there will come a great King of terror." Nobody knows what that was supposed to mean, but in recent decades many would...
...start living the life/ That you're talking about," go the words to the group's 1988 song Bad Mouth. Despite this anticommercialism stance, or perhaps because of it, the band has a fair-size, near fanatical following of fans, many of whom seem to believe in a modified Copernican theory of the universe in which everything revolves around Fugazi...
However, according to The Harvard Century, by Richard Norton Smith, "Seventeenth century Harvard opened its doors to Copernican theory, in clear contradiction to Scripture and more than a hundred years in advance of European universities...
Pinkerton, who is only 32, a onetime libertarian, explains paradigms in terms of the Ptolemaic and Copernican models of the universe. The mind, in order to explore and solve problems, must operate upon certain models, certain sets of assumptions. For 13 centuries, humankind assumed, as Ptolemy taught, that the sun revolved around the earth. It was a workable paradigm of the universe, in its way, but became the Old Paradigm when Copernicus propounded the New Paradigm that the earth revolved around...