Running Head: THE COPERNICAN PRINCIPLE1THE COPERNICAN
PRINCIPLENAMEINSTITUTIONWHAT IS THE COPERNICAN PRINCIPLE?2THE
COPERNICAN PRINCIPLEAbstractThe Copernican principle, in its
originality, is the principal stating that the Earth does not stay
inany unique or privileged position in the Universe at all times.
To be more specific, this claim isderived from Nicolaus Copernicus
claim that the Earth is not stationary. He made this assertionwhile
proposing his solar system’s heliocentric model (Gott, 1993).This
is a basic physical science statement that eliminates any personal
observations. Earlier on,in the Middle Age, the Aristotelian Model
had made claims that the Earth as at the centre of theUniverse as
everything else seemed to be revolving around it,. Copernicus later
disapproved thisstatement proving that indeed the Sun was the
center of the Universe and that the earth revolvedaround the
Sun.Although Copernicus’ heliocentric model received serious
opposition from both scientists andphilosophers as it even went
ahead to challenge common sense assertions, it has slowly
gainedrecognition from emerging scientists who have proven that he
made no mistakes in …