J. Brookes Spencer
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Associate Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Editor of The Collected Works of Niels Bohr.
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Copernican Revolution, shift in the field of astronomy from a geocentric understanding of the universe, centred around Earth, to a heliocentric understanding, centred around the Sun, as articulated by the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century. This shift marked the start of aβ¦
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