Kdaj je »kopernikanska« revolucija postala znanstvena revolucija?

We have to distinguish between the scientific revolution which was bound to the work of Copernicus and the cultural-ideological changes that accompanied and framed this revolution. The »Copernican« revolution was in the beginning a constituent part of the cultural and ideological changes at the end of the Renaissance but it became a scientific revolution only with Galilei and Kepler. This was the first scientific revolution which inaugurated the internal dynamics of scientific development. A necessary condition of that revolution was the incorporation of consistent physical dynamics into astronomy. This happened with the formulation of Kepler’s laws and Galilei’s postulates on relative movements, and the law of inertia and free fall, which are valid for the entire physical universe.Moramo razlikovati med znanstveno revolucijo, ki se je navezovala na Kopernikovo delo in na kulturno-ideološke spremembe, ki so spremljale in uokvirjale to revolucijo. »Kopernikanska« revolucija je bila spočetka sestavni del kulturno-ideoloških sprememb ob koncu renesanse, toda šele s Galilejem in Keplerjem je postala znanstvena revolucija. Bila je prva znanstvena revolucija, ki je inavgurirala internalno dinamiko razvoja znanosti. Nujni pogoj zanjo je bila vključitev konsistentne fizikalne dinamike v astronomijo. To se je zgodilo šele s formuliranjem Keplerjevih zakonov in Galilejevih postulatov relativnih gibanj, zakona vztrajnosti in prostega pada, ki veljajo za vse fizično vesolje