What were the scientific and relious implications of copernicuss theory?
His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Co… Because it challenged religious dogma of the time, it set up the first of many religion vs. science conflicts, which have all ended in the favor of science. Now the Catholic church goes out of its way NOT to take an anti-science stance on issues like evolution and cosmology (as many protestant and islamic fundamentalists still do).
