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Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus
also: Коперник
The Renaissance astronomer who proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system, including the earth's rotation; invoked here in mock-learned comic exaggeration by a drunken narrator justifying his ability to still walk home.
Reading notes
- Three Sisters §159 Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), whose heliocentric model of the solar system was long resisted before being accepted; Vershinin invokes him alongside Columbus as an example of a truth once mocked as useless that later became obvious.
- The Problem §13 Copernicus's theory
Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer whose heliocentric model held that the earth rotates and orbits the sun -- invoked here purely for comic bombast, as a drunken man's grandiose way of saying he can still stagger home on foot.