Copernicus and the Origin of his Heliocentric System
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L'introduction d'un systeme heliocentrique par Copernic etait a l'epoque consideree comme revolutionnaire pour la cosmologie traditionnelle et apparait comme etant un evenement globalement marquant de l'histoire des sciences. Mais quelle etait la base de la recherche qui a abouti a l'heliocentrisme ? L'auteur explore les raisons qui ont pousse Copernic a rejeter les principes relatifs aux distances cosmiques et au systeme geocentrique dans lequel ils etaient ancres.
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Recent trends in historiography of science have critiqued the notion of a scientific revolution and downplayed the Copernicus-Galileo-Newton narrative.
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- Authors
- Goldstein, B. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Goldstein, Bernard R.
- Venue
- Journal for the History of Astronomy
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2002-08
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 219-235
- ISSN
- 0021-8286 (ISSN-L)
- 1753-8556
- OpenAlex
- W1631164747
- Cited by
- 59
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 5
- FWCI
- 1.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal for the History of Astronomy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › History and Developments in Astronomy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Historical Philosophy and Science
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
- Keywords
- Copernicus, heliocentrism, cosmological distances, Copernican revolution, history of astronomy
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