...portion. Apart from a few intuitions of the ancients, it was supposed until the time of Copernicus that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, like the moon, revolved round it. We now know that if the sun revolves it is around some remote and...

...long ago, and what a hindrance to the truth they were. For instance, there was the theory that this earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun and planets revolved around it. When the Copernican theory was established, and it was proved that the sun was the centre,...

...immortal. But assumptions, however natural or taking, are not necessarily facts. For ages men believed that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the heavenly bodies revolved around it. But how gigantic, even grotesque, the lie ! Lives there the man...

...gravity and of gravitation, the geocentric idea of the universe was overthrown, ie, the false conception that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the other bodies, sun, moon, stars, existed only for the purpose of sweeping round and round this world...

...Copernicus, that is, before the middle of the sixteenth century, the belief of Christendom had been that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the whole of the stellar worlds were created subservient to it. Copernicus, though he was not the first...

...theory of Copernicus that the earth and planets move round the sun, superseded the old Ptolemaic theory that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, stars, and planets moved round the earth as centre. The Copernican theory is the foundation of modern...

...theory of Copernicus that the earth and planets move round the sun, superseded the old Ptolemaic theory that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, stars, and planets moved round the earth as centre. The Copernican theory is the foundation of modern...

...and should extend to science a friendly and helping hand. In the earlier ages of the Church it held that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, moon, and stars revolved around it. To disbelieve this doctrine was a denial of the plain teaching...

...rather than admit it, we find it more congenial to anathematise the bringer of new light. We thought the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun revolved around us, — it added to our importance and self-esteem to believe it. Galileo must needs...

...exponent — it may be of service if we remind the reader of the main outlines of that system. It assumed that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the heavenly bodies revolved round it in perfect circles and at a uniform rate of motion. Such phenomena...