Copernicus
[kəu'pə:nikəs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a conspicuous crater on the Moon.
(noun.) Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543).
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例句/造句/用法:
- Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Formerly he had taught the old system of Aristotle to his classes, now, after a searching investigation, he declared his belief in the contrary conclusions of Copernicus. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- This divided the world of Italy into two camps, the one those who believed in Aristotle and the old learning, the other those who followed Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Science then also revived, and Copernicus, the Pole, gave us the true theory of the solar system. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The work of Pe urbach had as commentator the first teacher in astronomy of Copernicus (1473-1543). 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This view was so contrary to prevailing beliefs that Copernicus refused to publish his theory for th irty-six years. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- L ater Copernicus spent nine years in Italy, studying at the universities and acquainting himself wit h Ptolemaic and other ancient views concerning the motions of the planets. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- In the century following the death of Copernicus, two great scientists, Bacon and Descartes, compared all knowledge to a tree, of which the separate sciences are branches. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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