 | Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...replies Master Telescope, is very natural ; for it was an opinion held by the ancients some thousands of years, that the earth, was the centre of the Universe,...and that the sun and planets revolved round it ; but I think this is easily refuted by a common occurrence in a kitchen ; I mean a small bird roasting on... | |
 | Robert Johnston - Poland - 1816 - 410 pages
...motions, changes, etc. Claudius Ptolemy, the Egyptian astronomer, "supposed the earth immovably fixed in the centre of the universe, and that the sun and planets revolved round it. In this early age, it was believed that all the stars were fixed in one concave sphere, at an equal... | |
 | Publius Vergilius Maro - 1825 - 428 pages
...what is now found to be the Earth's orbit, between Venus and Mars ; and that the Earth was placed in the centre of the Universe ; and that the Sun and Planets revolved around it. This would give an eccentricity to the motions of these heavenly bodies, especially the... | |
 | Science - 1837 - 594 pages
...accustomed to connect itself with the names of such men as Plato, and Aristotle, and Ptolemy, who taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the planets revolved in various and complicated ways about it, — and the weak invention of one Tycho... | |
 | Henry Moseley - Astronomy - 1839 - 242 pages
...accustomed to associate itself with the names of such men as Plato, and Aristotle, and Ptolemy, who taught that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the planets revolved in various and complicated ways about it, — and the weak invention of one Tycho... | |
 | Robert Owen - Communism - 1840 - 78 pages
...affairs, must prevail, as existed in all minds respecting the solar system, when it was generally believed that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, stars, and planets moved round it. Those who discovered the principles which now so beautifully explain... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Life - 1851 - 834 pages
...without restriction. Tt was also a prevailing helief in those days, especially among the lower classes, that the earth was the centre of the Universe, and that the stars, moon, and sum, were necessary appendages to the earth, and that no other earth was in existence... | |
 | Joseph Baylee - Bible and geology - 1857 - 222 pages
...of"—that, upon the same infallible authority, the whole of Christendom and the Hebrew Church believed the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun and stars revolved around it, until Galileo, in 161& AD, demonstrated that their ground of faith was untenable,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1865 - 220 pages
...science ? — Their knowledge of some departments of science was exceedingly imperfect. They believed that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, planets, and stars revolved 1 See Greek and Roman Literature, in Miscellaneous Questions. around it... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - Life - 1871 - 824 pages
...without restriction. Tt was also a prevailing belief in those days, especially among the lower classes, that the earth was the centre of the Universe, and that the stars, moon, and sun, were necessary appendages to the earth, and that no other earth was in existence... | |
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Graeco-Egyptian mathematician and geographer who believed that the earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun and planets revolved around it. 
