... son of a prosperous merchant and was raised by a protective uncle after his father's death. His uncle enabled him to enter the University of Krakow, which was famous for its mathematics, philosophy, and astronomy courses. Next he studied liberal arts at Bologna, medicine at Padua, and law at the University of Ferrara. He left Ferrara in 1503 with a doctorate in canon law ... theory implied that the universe was larger than what was originally thought. Copernicus hesitated to publish his theory because he knew it would cause controversy. Many scientists still accepted the medieval paradi...

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... stir, challenging authority and tradition. Over the course of the seventeenth century, scientific method changed and evolved into a more complex and involved process. The scientific method defied the tradition of medieval science of logic and physical sight by using experimentation as a basis for knowledge. The scientific method began with the new ideology and attitude toward once "proven" facts. Since the new ... were not. This proved his point indisputably using scientific method. Now, lets examine what Copernicus did at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Copernicus studied the...

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