 | The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction: VOL.XXXIII - 1839 - 446 pages
...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 - 576 pages
...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 - 1853 - 578 pages
...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 - 570 pages
...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 - 1854 - 574 pages
...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 pages
...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 as equally... | |
 | 1875 - 694 pages
...Religion and Science. 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. A few decades ago profound dissatisfaction was shown that the evidence of organic... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1869 - 498 pages
...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 pages
...religion and science. 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. A few decades ago profound dissatisfaction was shown that the evidence of organic... | |
 | 1875 - 692 pages
...Religion and Science. 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. A few decades ago profound dissatisfaction was shown that the evidence of organic... | |
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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. 
