 ... who could foretell eclipses, and who discovered the precession of the equinoxes, still believed that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, and that all the hosts of heaven performed a daily revolution about it as a centre. It usually...  A manual of natural philosophy, by J.L. Comstock and R.D. Hoblyn - Síða 301eftir John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 477 síðurHeildartexta - Um bókina
 | Richard Brookes - 1812 - 822 síður
...Hence this doctrine, for many ages was called the Pythagorean System. T his system supposes the Earth at rest in the centre of the universe, and that the heavens revolve round it from east to west, carrying all the celestial bodies along with them, in twenty-four... | |
 | Richard Brookes - 1812 - 832 síður
...philosopher, who lived ubout 138 years after Christ) was universality adopted. This system supposes the Earth at rest in the centre of the universe, and that the heavens revolve round it from east to west, carrying all the celestial bodies along with them, in twenty-four... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1832 - 546 síður
...6ourish«d at Pelunium in Egypt during the reigns of the Roman emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, lie taught that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, and that the lumens retained round it from East to West in twenty-four hour*, carrying all the heavenly bodies,... | |
 | Aaron Arrowsmith - 1839 - 880 síður
...the reijzns of the Roman emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. He taught that the earth icat at reft in the centre of the universe, and that the heavens...twenty-four hours, carrying all the heavenly bodies, stars and planets along with them : but as there were many difficulties in his system be endeavoured... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1859 - 872 síður
...antiquity who could foretell eclipses, and who discovered the precession of the equinoxes, still believed that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, and that all the hosts of heaven performed a daily revolution about it as a centre. It usually happens in scientific... | |
 | Richard Phillips (sir.) - 1851
...the Tychonic. 1. The Ptolemaic system was so named from the famous geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus, who flourished in Egypt during the reigns of the Roman...east to west, in twenty-four hours, carrying all the Refraction of the Atmosphw THEORY OF THE TIDES heavenly bodies with them. This system was believed,... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1854 - 544 síður
...they always kept exactly the same distances and bearings, perhaps then we might come to the conclusion that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, with a hollow crystalline sphere rotating about it, and carrying the sun, moon and stars, somehow or... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1855 - 538 síður
...they always kept exactly the same distances and bearings, perhaps then we might come to the conclusion that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, with a hollow crystalline sphere rotating about it, and carrying the sun, moon and stars, somehow or... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 síður
...men who could foretell eclipses, and who discovered the precession of the equinoxes, still believed that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, and that all the hosts of heaven performed a daily revolution about it as a centre. It usually happens in scientific... | |
 | Dudley Observatory - 1866 - 392 síður
...antiquity who could foretell eclipses, and who discovered the precession of the equinoxes, still believed that the earth was at rest in the centre of the universe, and that all the hosts of heaven performed a daily revolution about it as a centre. It usually happens in scientific... | |
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