Copemican revolution

Following this new Copemican revolution, far from being horrified by the remoteness of the stars and by the tremendous divergence operating across the whole Universe, astronomers set abont drawing up an overview of the new paradigm and determining its structural and chemical evolution. 

The term paradigm was popularized by Thomas Kuhn in his book. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published in 1962. Borrowing the word from linguistics, Kuhn used the term to indicate a specific way of viewing scientific reality, the mindset of a scientific community. Some of Kuhn s examples include Copemican astronomy, Newtonian dynamics, and quantum mechanics. Each of these paradigms affected the choice of problems that were considered worthy of solution, as well as acceptable approaches to solving those problems. [8]... 

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