It’s not a stretch to say the Copernican revolution fundamentally changed the way we think about our place in the universe. In antiquity people believed the Earth was the centre of the solar system ...

In 1543 Copernicus moved the Earth from the center of the cosmos to a less exalted position. In 1924 Hubble did it again, moving our galaxy from... When Einstein proposed the first cosmological model ...

In my last post I remarked on how "radically strange--and yet strangely modern" I expected the 1543 work that kicked off the "scientific revolution" to be. Now that I've read the first two books of De ...

The year 1543 A.D. will forever be celebrated as a sentinel time in the annals of science. In that year, Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer, published his model of the universe ...

To understand the profound cultural, economic, and social transformations triggered by artificial intelligence, it is ...

A Copernican revolution is a colossal reversal of thought and belief after a conceptual revelation. At the point of death, Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) challenged the geocentric model proposed by ...

How might AI breakthroughs change the larger systems we operate within? In his brief commentary, Azeem Azhar discusses the increasing complexity and capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and ...

THE results of the ‘Copernican Revolution’ have been well described by historians of science. Less has been said about the origins of this revolution; that is, the problems and facts leading ...

On May 24, 1543, Nicholas Copernicus achieved every writer’s great dream of finally holding in his hands a published copy of the book he had worked on for most of his life. Having done so, he then ...