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Copernican system

noun

  1. the theory published in 1543 by Copernicus which stated that the earth and the planets rotated around the sun and which opposed the Ptolemaic system

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The Copernican System was not recognized for more than a century.

You mistake his essay on the "Copernican System" for blotting paper.

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