Nicolaus Copernicus.

Wake up, Copernicus.

We were still back where Copernicus was.

Would you ban Copernicus from the classroom along with Charles Darwin?

The DNA matched, and we know that this was indeed Nicolaus Copernicus.

The famous thesis of Copernicus's book was that the Earth moved around the Sun.

But in 1543, a guy named Copernicus proposed a different model.

So, here's Copernicus' view of what the solar system looked like as a plan.

Copernicus was actually simply buried in an unmarked grave, together with 14 others in that cathedral.

Copernicus' act did, by changing the way we view space and time.

And where did our world come from? How and when will it end? In the revolutions spawned by Copernicus and Darwin, we began to see time as an arrow, in a universe that's always changing.

Bradley's discovery confirmed Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

It only took one robust observation from Copernicus to blow that idea out of the water.

The small planets dominated, and there was a certain harmony to that, which actually Copernicus was very happy to note, and Kepler was one of the big proponents of.

There will be the smaller planets, and there will be the big planets, even back to the time of Epicurus and then of course Copernicus and his followers.

And I'll also discover how the man many consider to be the father of the European scientific renaissance, Copernicus, borrowed from Islamic astronomical theories.

Shortly after Copernicus, in the 1580s, an Italian friar, Giordano Bruno, suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the universe was infinite.

Now, this is Copernicus, and he was right, when he was talking to anyone who needs to hear your idea.

Rarely, you know evolution did this and Copernicus did this, where we have a new understanding of who we are.

Indeed, the publication of Copernicus' heliocentric model of the cosmos (1543) is seen by many as marking the beginning of a scientific revolution.

There will be the smaller planets, and there will be the big planets, even back to the time of Epicurus and then of course Copernicus and his followers.

The small planets dominated, and there was a certain harmony to that, which actually Copernicus was very happy to note, and Kepler was one of the big proponents of.

As it was the custom of the time, Copernicus was actually simply buried in an unmarked grave, together with 14 others in that cathedral.

You look at some other scientific revolutions, and this case, I'm talking about the solar system, that's Copernicus, Darwin's evolution, and tectonic plates, that's Wegener.

The very moment he appears on the world s television screens, victorious and smiling, America s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.

And this is what my new satellite looks like, that we can all look up, and stare at when we stare at the stars like Copernicus.

So today, I'm here to actually give you a first glimpse of what the new telescope, Kepler, has been able to tell us in the last few weeks, and, lo and behold, we are back to the harmony and to fulfilling the dreams of Copernicus.

Now, the connection between biology and DNA and life is very tantalizing when you talk about Copernicus because, even back then, his followers very quickly made the logical step to ask if the Earth is just a planet, then what about planets around other stars?

If Obama can make a difference, it is not because of his policy choices, but because of what he is. The very moment he appears on the world s television screens, victorious and smiling, America s image and soft power would experience something like a Copernican revolution.

In his book, Ibn al Shatir, an Arab astronomer of the fourteenth century , E. S. Kennedy wrote what is of most interest, however, is that Ibn al Shatir's lunar theory, except for trivial differences in parameters, is identical with that of Copernicus (1473 1543 AD).