Copernican Revolution Begins

Copernican Revolution is a phrase with different meanings in different contexts.^¹ In astronomy, the phrase refers to the transition from geocentrism to heliocentrism.^¹ For Christianity and Western culture, it may instead refer to the dismantling of the human-centric medieval cosmology and its cultural consequences.^¹ In physical cosmology, the phrase may be used to refer to the emergence and formalization of the Copernican principle that humans are not privileged observers of the universe.^¹ Within the philosophy of science, the Copernican Revolution is the first historic example of a paradigm shift in science.^¹ Finally, the phrase is sometimes used by English speakers as a metaphor for any radical intellectual upheaval that fundamentally reorders or reshapes our understanding of the world.^¹