Example sentences for: copernicus

How can you use “copernicus” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 7. sun: earth:: Copernicus:?

  • Copernicus's statements, showed Galileo, were not only figments of his imagination; they were an adequate description of the universe as he and Brahe had observed it.

  • Tycho Brahe, the exquisite observer, who built, calibrated, and refined instruments to see in the sky what no one else could, collected the evidence to prove a theory that Copernicus had already stated years before (in a book he dedicated to the Pope).

  • Aryabhatt, a Hindu astronomer and mathematician, pointed out before Copernicus did that the solar system is heliocentric, not geocentric.

  • This might have made Copernicus unpopular, if he hadn't had the good sense to die the day his book went to press.


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