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Bibliography

Plant, David, "The Copernican Revolution"; Skyscript, 2013; (10/09/2013). <http://www.skyscript.co.uk/copernicus.html>

Tenn, Joseph S. "The Copernican Revolution"; Sonoma State University, 2007; (10/09/2013). <http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/copernicanrevolution.html>

Wikipedia is missing a "Static Newtonian" cosmology

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In this list of historical cosmologies, Static Newtonian is listed with this description

Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle. Matter on the large scale is uniformly distributed. Gravitationally balanced but unstable.

I would like to link to the Static Newtonian cosmology as the (or an) outcome of the Copernican Revolution but since there is no Wikipedia article (or even a section!) describing it, I can't. In the absence of any material in any existing Wikipedia article, would linking to Bentley's paradox instead be reasonable?
Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 19:49, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

I guess I could also link to Olbers' paradox?
Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 19:52, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

If someone wanted to start an article, this

Static Newtonian Universe

chapter in Cosmology The Science of the Universe, pp. 323 - 338

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804540.018 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2000

might be a place to start for material.
Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 20:00, 20 February 2026 (UTC)

Done It's not a great article (only 700 words!) but I linked to Static universe.
Kirsten Jørgensdatter (talk) 15:31, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

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