| Monthly literary register - 1826 - 680 pages
...condemned as being heretical, because contrary to the Scriptures j and the one in which it was asserted that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that it had a diurnal motion, as erroneous in regard to the faith. Afterwards Cardinal Bellarmine exhorted... | |
| 1826 - 722 pages
...condemned as being heretical, because contrary to the Scriptures; and the one in which it was asserted that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that it had a diurnal motion, as erroneous in regard to the faith. Afterwards Cardinal Bellarmine exhorted... | |
| De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 1878 - 1146 pages
...positive stand in opposition to the discoveries of 'the astronomer Copernicus, who taught the new doctrine that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that the sun and all the stars revolved around it, but that the'sun is in the centre of our system, and... | |
| Edward Carpenter - 1891 - 170 pages
...centre of the earth as such. This was all right and satisfactory for a while ; but presently it appeared that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that some heavy bodies — such as the satellites of Jupiter — did not in fact tend to the centre of the... | |
| Edward Carpenter - 1893 - 168 pages
...centre of the earth as such. This was all right and satisfactory for a while ; but presently it appeared that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that some heavy bodies — such as the satellites of Jupiter— did not in fact tend to the centre of tlic... | |
| Edward Carpenter - 1895 - 178 pages
...centre of the earth as such. This was all right and satisfactory for a while ; but presently it appeared that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that some heavy bodies — such as the satellites of Jupiter — did not in fact tend to the centre of the... | |
| William Hurrell Mallock - 1898 - 434 pages
...the qualities of external objects, ordinary men's perceptions would never have sufficed to show us that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that the sun did not move round it. But the true moral of all that has been just insisted on is, that in... | |
| Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1926 - 550 pages
...superstructure of science has been built. Between the two lives much had been done by Copernicus, who taught that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that it revolved on its axis from west to east. This gave the traditions of fourteen centuries a severe jolt,... | |
| Frank Wilson Blackmar - 1926 - 532 pages
...superstructure of science has been built. Between the two lives much had been done by Copernicus, who taught that the earth was not the centre of the universe, and that it revolved on its axis from west to east. This gave the traditions of fourteen centuries a severe jolt,... | |
| David J. Hawkin, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - 1985 - 197 pages
...changed these views. The revolution is often said to have begun with Copernicus, who in 1543 suggested that the earth was not the centre of the universe and that day and night were caused by the earth rotating on its axis. Copernicus's ideas were attacked by the... | |
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