 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pàgines
...philosophers who supported the famous opinion of Pythagoras, that the earth revolved round the sun, and that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of the world ; and according to some, it is believed that they even taught the doctrine of the plurality of... | |
 | Edward Beecher - 1853 - 570 pàgines
...no presumptive argument against it from the fact that it has not been generally adopted. The theory that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of the solar system, was rejected for ages, simply because it was not thoroughly looked into, although often... | |
 | Edward Beecher - 1853 - 578 pàgines
...no presumptive argument against it from the fact that it has not been generally adopted. The theory that the sun, and not the earth, -was the centre of the solar system, was rejected for ages, simply because it was not thoroughly looked into, although often... | |
 | Edward Beecher - 1853 - 576 pàgines
...no presumptive argument against it from the fact that it has not been generally adopted. The theory that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of the solar system, was rejected for ages, simply because it Tas not thoroughly looked into, although often... | |
 | Edward Beecher - 1854 - 574 pàgines
...no presumptive argument against it from the fact that it has not been generally adopted. The theory that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of the solar system, was rejected for ages, simply because it was not thoroughly looked into, although often... | |
 | The Month A Magazine and Review - 1868 - 658 pàgines
...interrogated according to the order of the Pope.t He was asked at what period he had first professed that the sun and not the earth was the centre of the universe. He replied that for some time before the decree of 1616 he had considered the two opinions... | |
 | 1875 - 1140 pàgines
...theological disgust was produced by the announcement that the sun and not the earth was the center of the planetary system. A few decades ago profound...not to have been, according to popularly received interpretation : and yet more recently much apprehension has been felt at the possible derivation of... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pàgines
...luminary ; a discovery which was absolutely inconsistent with the system of Ptolemy, which proved, that the Sun, and not the Earth, was the centre of the periodical revolutions of Mars, as well as of Venus and Mercury; and which demonstrated that the Earth... | |
 | 1875 - 884 pàgines
...so far as these truths are embodied in human language, and manipulated l>y human interest, they Lave a common dominion over the soul of man. According...the planet was very ancient. Recently some annoyance lias been exhibited because human remains have been found in situations where they ought not to have... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1876 - 588 pàgines
...who is infinitely greater. Let us give no place to the crude speculations of woukl-be-teleologists, who are indeed, in great part refuted already by the...Recently some annoyance has been exhibited because human remain* have been found in situations where they ought not to have been, according to popularly received... | |
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Some centuries ago, great theological disgust was produced by the announcement that the sun and not the earth was the centre of the planetary system. 
