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The Copernican Revolution, which in terms of astronomy amounted to the acceptance of heliocentrism as suggested by Nicolaus Copernicus, has also been used widely as a metaphor supporting descriptions of modernity. A particularly prominent case was the selection of this comparison by Immanuel Kant in his ''Critique of Pure Reason'' (1787 edition) to explain the effect in epistemology of his new transcendental philosophy.〔Ermanno Bencivenga (1987), ''Kant's Copernican Revolution''.〕 ==Characteristics of the metaphor== David Luban has analysed four different sides of the metaphorical usage, deriving from different aspects of the Copernican Revolution as it is understood in the history of science, and its wider impact on thought: * a sense of uprootedness within cosmology; * a way of representing the path of reason and Enlightenment; * mistrust of common sense as a guide to truth; * a world-picture based on scientific laws rather than narratives.〔David Luban, ''Legal Modernism'' (1997), pp. 18–20.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Copernican Revolution (metaphor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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