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Copernican Revolution

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The paradigm shift from a geocentric view of the universe to a heliocentric one, with the sun at the center and the Earth moving around it.

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The Structure of DNA

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The double helix model of DNA proposed by Watson and Crick, marking a paradigm shift in understanding genetic information and heredity.

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Aristotelian Physics

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A framework that explained physical phenomena in terms of Aristotle's concepts of matter, form, and privation, including ideas like natural motion and celestial spheres.

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Quantum Mechanics

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A fundamental theory in physics that provides a description of the physical properties of nature at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.

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Plate Tectonics

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A geoscientific paradigm that describes the motions of Earth's lithosphere and has fundamentally changed the understanding of Earth's geology.

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Ptolemaic Astronomy

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A geocentric model that described the universe with the Earth at its center, with planetary motions explained by epicycles on top of deferents.

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Newtonian Mechanics

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A classical physics paradigm where the motions of bodies were explained by universal gravitation and the three laws of motion.

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Darwinian Evolution

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The biological paradigm that species evolve over time due to natural selection and genetic variation.

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The Big Bang Theory

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The cosmological paradigm that explains the origin and evolution of the universe, depicting it as expanding from a hot, dense initial state.

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General Relativity

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Albert Einstein's theory of gravitation that describes gravity as a property of the geometry of space and time, or spacetime, caused by mass.

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