 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 626 pages
...those of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...Astronomer, of its attribute of fixity ; and conceived by him as turning swiftly on its centre, and at the same time moving onwards through space with great... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1873 - 662 pages
...those of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...Astronomer, of its attribute of fixity ; and conceived by him as turning swiftly on its centre, and at the same time moving onwards through space with great... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1873 - 486 pages
...of superficial and vulgar observations, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...foundation of the firmest structures, either of art or of nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1878 - 642 pages
...those of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...Astronomer, of its attribute of fixity ; and conceived by him as turning swiftly ou its centre, and at the same time moving onwards through space with great... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1879 - 520 pages
...the most positive evidenca of hit senses. Thus the earth on which he stands, and which hos served fof ages as the unshaken foundation of the firmest structures either of art ot nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and con ce.ved by him as turning... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Davis - 1880 - 426 pages
...of SUPERFICIAL and VULGAR OBSERVATION, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses." But harmonial philosophy sanctions the practice and propriety of appealing to inferior and external... | |
 | Ohio - 1888 - 448 pages
...of superficial and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one. until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses." Men first supposed that the earth is a flat disk, bounded by the visible horizon. The second theory... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - America - 1892 - 44 pages
...those of superficial and vulgar observation and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of his senses." Time compelled the abandonment of the disc theory and the creation of a new one. Cold shut out from... | |
 | George Grote - Greece - 1899 - 530 pages
...of super/ifiat and vulgar observation, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive evidence of hn senses.. Thus the earth on which he stands, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1873 - 490 pages
...of superficial and vulgar observations, and with what appears to every one, until he has understood and weighed the proofs to the contrary, the most positive...foundation of the firmest structures, either of art or of nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning... | |
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Thus, the earth on which he stands, and which has served for ages as the unshaken foundation of the firmest structures, either of art or nature, is divested by the astronomer of its attribute of fixity, and conceived by him as turning swiftly on its centre,... 
