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Today marks the 540th birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus ( >Google doodle - listed after February 19), the Polish mathematician of the early 16th century, formulator of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
This blog is named for >his eponymous principle from physical cosmology: that the Earth doesn’t exist in a specially favoured position in this universe.
Its broader scientific counterpart is the mediocrity principle, which says that the state of the Earth is not >a product of intent but all of it does follow rules.
Both these principles are central to the study of natural phenomena as they are and the modelling of >the scientific method as it is.