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Marking the Copernican

The arrival of Nicolaus Copernicus into the theatre of the Renaissance marked the beginning of the decline of the "unique" human condition to and within a physical universe.

February 19, 2013 03:19 pm | Updated June 11, 2016 05:55 pm IST

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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.

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Marking the Copernican

The arrival of Nicolaus Copernicus into the theatre of the Renaissance marked the beginning of the decline of the &quot;unique&quot; human condition to and within a physical universe.

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The arrival of Nicolaus Copernicus into the theatre of the Renaissance marked the beginning of the decline of the "unique" human condition to and within a physical universe.