The Warfare of ScienceScholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 1876 - 156 pages |
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... theory of the world , based upon the literal interpretation of texts of Scripture , and its author was Cosma Indicopleustes . ' According to Cosmas , the earth is a parallelo gram , flat , and surrounded by four great seas . A the outer ...
... theory of the world , based upon the literal interpretation of texts of Scripture , and its author was Cosma Indicopleustes . ' According to Cosmas , the earth is a parallelo gram , flat , and surrounded by four great seas . A the outer ...
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... theory that over this first vault is a vast cistern containing the waters . He then takes the 1 Isaiah xl . 22 . 3 Genesis i . 6 . 2 Job xxvi . 11 . 4 Psalm cxlviii . 4 . 1 expression in Genesis regarding the " windows of heaven ...
... theory that over this first vault is a vast cistern containing the waters . He then takes the 1 Isaiah xl . 22 . 3 Genesis i . 6 . 2 Job xxvi . 11 . 4 Psalm cxlviii . 4 . 1 expression in Genesis regarding the " windows of heaven ...
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... theory , very droll , and thought out on similar principles , see Mun- go Park , cited in De Morgan , Paradoxes , 309. For Cosmas's joy- ful summing up , see Montfaucon , Collectio Nova Patrum , vol . ii . , p . 255 . the earth beyond ...
... theory , very droll , and thought out on similar principles , see Mun- go Park , cited in De Morgan , Paradoxes , 309. For Cosmas's joy- ful summing up , see Montfaucon , Collectio Nova Patrum , vol . ii . , p . 255 . the earth beyond ...
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... theory of the earth's sphericity , the Church , by its highest authority , was again solemnly committed to the theory of the earth's flatness . In 1493 Pope Alexander VI . issues a bull laying down a line of demarkation upon the earth ...
... theory of the earth's sphericity , the Church , by its highest authority , was again solemnly committed to the theory of the earth's flatness . In 1493 Pope Alexander VI . issues a bull laying down a line of demarkation upon the earth ...
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... theory , carried weight . It had been elaborated until it accounted well for the phe- nomena . Exact textual interpreters of Scripture cherished it , for it agreed with the letter of the sacred text.2 But , most important of all , it ...
... theory , carried weight . It had been elaborated until it accounted well for the phe- nomena . Exact textual interpreters of Scripture cherished it , for it agreed with the letter of the sacred text.2 But , most important of all , it ...
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Page 147 - All flesh is not the same flesh : but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial : but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Page 48 - The opinion of the earth's motion is of all heresies the most abominable, the most pernicious, the most scandalous ; the immovability of the earth is thrice sacred ; argument against the immortality of the soul, the existence of God, and the incarnation, should be tolerated sooner than an argument to prove that the earth moves.
Page 31 - The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty-four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere [the celestial sphere] nor the sun revolves.
Page 29 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Page 30 - People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system which of all systems is, of course, the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. But Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
Page 8 - In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably ; and, on the other hand, all...