Synonyms:
Copernicus
Meaning: a conspicuous crater on the Moon
Synonyms:
Copernicus, Nicolaus_Copernicus, Mikolaj_Kopernik
Meaning: Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
Usage examples
We understand why it was that Copernicus did not permit his book to be published until he was dying.
He was rewarded by finding that at any rate the plane of the orbit did not tilt up and down: it was fixed, and this was a simplification on Copernicus's theory.
This coincidence, in his own words, woke him out of sleep; and for some reason or other impelled him instantly to try making the planet oscillate in the diameter of its epicycle instead of revolve round it--a singular idea, but Copernicus had had a similar one to explain the motions of Mercury.
He says:--"The intense pleasure I have received from this discovery can never be told in words. I regretted no more the time wasted; I tired of no labour; I shunned no toil of reckoning, days and nights spent in calculation, until I could see whether my hypothesis would agree with the orbits of Copernicus, or whether my joy was to vanish into air."