Accor­ding to the tra­di­tio­nal inter­pre­ta­tion, the Coper­ni­can revo­lu­tion, which brought about the trans­fer from geo­cen­trism to helio­cen­trism, is said to have dethro­ned and deva­lued man by remo­ving his cen­tral and hence pri­vi­le­ged posi­tion in the cos­mos and by rele­ga­ting him to a pla­net now seen as ana­lo­gous to others occu­pying an insi­gni­fi­cant posi­tion within the solar sys­tem. This inter­pre­ta­tion fails not only in its unders­tan­ding of Coper­ni­can helio­cen­trism, but also in its per­cep­tion of Aris­to­te­lian mediae­val geo­cen­trism. It is neces­sa­ry, the­re­fore, not only to denounce its gene­ral fal­si­ty, but also to sub­sti­tute for it a dif­ferent inter­pre­ta­tive scheme which, although it may empha­size less our link with the world, may be more res­pect­ful of his­to­ri­cal truth.