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Copernican (adj.)
1660s, "pertaining to
Copernicus
."
Copernicus
Latinized form of name of Mikolaj
Koppernigk
(1473-1543), physician and canon of the cathedral of Frauenburg. His great work was
"De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium."