User:Tyranosopher

I tried to edit the article on Copernicus: among the predecessors of Copernicus, it does not mention European Middle Ages professors such as Buridan (or Oresme, etc.) This is a gross mistake. Anyway I wasted quite a while trying to understand what I had to do to edit, and I had to give up. I could not determine if I was allowed to modify "semi-protected" pages.

Here is what I wanted to add:

Johannes Buridanus (Jean Buridan, 1298- circa 1360) and his students presented first most of the ideas now attributed to Copernicus (by those who have not read Buridan).

Buridan presented these discoveries as those of "supporters" of the idea that "authority does not demonstrate". Most of the arguments attributed to Copernicus, and even some attributed to Galileo (on relativity of motion), and even Newton (the first law of "Newton" is stated word for word by Buridan) are in Buridan's work.

Buridan was extremely famous in his lifetime (he advised kings, headed the University of Paris, and had many well known students. In 1474, reading the works of Buridan was made into a capital crime by the church and France's king Louis XI. This explains his historical eclipse. However, Buridan was still mandatory reading in the Polish university which Copernicus attended as a student. Tyranosopher (talk) 17:30, 12 April 2015 (UTC)