 | Scipione de' Ricci - 1834 - 276 pages
...that he would never more hold or assert in word or writing the doctrines which he had demonstrated, that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the earth moves. From that day he never afterwards either wrote or talked upon the subject of astronomy."... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - 254 pages
...school of Egypt many centuries after. It is believed that the Chaldeans held to the modern doctrine that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the planets revolve around it ; but when the great Alexandrian school, under the reign of the Ptolemies... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 pages
...advanced no proof, and made few converts to his views, and they were soon well nigh forgotten. He held that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the planets revolve about it in circular orbits ; that the earth revolves daily on its axis, and yearly... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1906 - 918 pages
...a problem which his predecessors for more than a century had failed to solve. The Copernican theory that the sun is the center of the solar system and that the earth moves round the sun established a corresponding apparent change in the places of the stars.... | |
 | John Gormley Murdoch - 1913 - 408 pages
...more and more intricate. All this complexity the Copernican system wiped out by substituting the ideas that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the revolution of sun, moon, and stars round the earth is but an illusion springing from the rotation... | |
 | Harold Bruce Hunting - 1914 - 350 pages
...rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race." To understand this poem, we must forget for the time being that the sun is the center of the solar system and that it is ninety million miles distant from the earth; we must forget all the rest of our modern astronomy,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1917 - 782 pages
...— Approximate distance from earth to #un a» accepted at rariovs time.*. When Copernicus proposed that the sun is the center of the solar system and that all the planets, including the earth, revolve around the sun, it was at once seen that such a motion of... | |
 | Leslie Henri Allen - 1925 - 244 pages
...that the earth was the center of the universe. But we know better ; we know better than that. We know that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that there are an infinity of other systems around about us. They thought the sun went around the earth... | |
 | 1925 - 356 pages
...no thought but that the earth was the center of the universe. But we know better than that. We know that the sun is the center of the solar system. And that there are an infinity of other systems around about us. They thought the sun went around the earth... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1926 - 384 pages
...health. A fourth time he came before the Holy Congregation, June 21, and was asked whether he held that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the earth is not the center, and that it moves. He replied, "I do not hold, and have not held this... | |
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Your theory that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the earth is a ball which rotates around it, has a very convincing ring to it, Mr. James, but it's wrong. I've got a better theory," said the little old lady. "And what is that, madam? 
