 Only very late and slowly have our minds opened to the conviction that after all the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, and that our eyes had all the while been mistaken.  The Popular Science Monthly - Side 1961877Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1760 - 188 sider
...Satellites, or Moons, revolving round their rrfpe£Vive Primaries» Which Properties demonstrate, that the Earth moves round the Sun, (and not the Sun round the Earth) to agree with Appearances. Therefore if the Sun moved round the Earth, according to this Law, then... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1814 - 420 sider
...best of my knowledge, is entirely new. From the principles thus established, it is The evident that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth ; for the centrifu gal law will never allow a great body to move strated' round a small one in any... | |
 | William M'Gavin - 1833 - 808 sider
...decision upon a subject so unimportant as the structure of the universe ; but supposing the doctrine, that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, to be false in philosophy, what right had the church of Rome to imprison, and commit men to the flames... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1839 - 554 sider
...the best of my knowledge, is entirely new. From the principles thus established, it is evident that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth : for the centrifugal law will never allow a great body to move round a small one in any orbit whatever... | |
 | Benjamin Pike - 1848 - 356 sider
...it. The earth's motion demonstrated. — From the principles thus established, it is evident, that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth ; for the centrifugal law will never allow a great body to move round a small one in any orb whatever... | |
 | Benjamin Pike (Jr.) - 1848 - 482 sider
...it. The earth's motion demonstrated. — From the principles thus established, it is evident, that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth ; for the centrifugal law will never allow a great body to move round a small one in any orb whatever... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1861 - 400 sider
...what his father tells him, even though he cannot understand it himself; or, as we all believe, that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, though we cannot prove it ; but only believe it, because wiser men than we have proved it. So we must... | |
 | Samuel Bache - 1863 - 130 sider
...wisest man can possibly answer. At the time when Galileo first discovered and established the truth that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth as had previously been the universal belief, that truth encountered many difficulties of the most formidable... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1867 - 544 sider
...it be, is no criterion of its soundness. It must be remembered that when it was first asserted that the earth moves round the sun, and not the sun round the earth, the assertion was not only listened to with doubt, but was rejected with derision. Besides, it must... | |
 | Max von Pettenkofer - 1873 - 116 sider
...basis than the insensibility of our senses to the movement of the air, if the same is less than 19 inches per second. This is the cause of the fallacy...any alteration in nature, cannot give it any laws — she can only recognise the laws of nature. But Science changes the notions of man, and often reverses... | |
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