The Copernican Revolution in Transylvania
The Copernican Revolution in Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The evolution of our thinking is a very interesting and instructive story. The standard bearers are founders of religions, philosophers, sometimes scientists too. The pioneering work of the latter was little understood by most of people. Our aim in this paper is to present a concrete situation, in which we could fallow the previous ideas: the acceptance of the heliocentric theory of Copernicus in Transylvania. We will do it through two paintings on wood of the Solar system, in two Transylvanian churches: one in a Greek-Catholic church in S, urdes, ti (Maramures, county), and the other in a Unitarian church in Ocland (Harghita county). Although they were made in the same period, these two paintings represent two opposite systems: the geocentric one and the heliocentric one. How was that possible?

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