 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 pages
...the earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars." "All which things, though they be difficult and almost...opinion of the majority, yet, in the sequel, by God's favour, we will make clearer than the sun, at least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics."... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 516 pages
...the earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars." " All which things, though they be difficult and almost...opinion of the majority, yet, in the sequel, by God's favour, we will make clearer than the sun, at least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics."... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 486 pages
...almost inconceivable, and against the opinion of the majority, yet, in the sequel, by God's favour, we will make clearer than the sun, at least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics." It Avill easily be understood, that since the ancient geocentric hypothesis ascribed to the planets... | |
 | William Whewell - 1847 - 522 pages
...earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars." " AH which things, though they be difficult and almost...opinion of the majority, yet, in the sequel, by God's favour, we will make clearer than the sun, at least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics."... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 622 pages
...the earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars." "All which things, though they be difficult and almost...least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics." It will easily be understood, that since the ancient geocentric hypothesis ascribed to the planets... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 566 pages
...the earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars." " All which things, though they be difficult and almost...least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics." It will easily be understood, that since the ancient geocentric hypothesis ascribed to the planets... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 582 pages
...the earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars." "All which things, though they be difficult and almost...will make clearer than the sun, at least to those who arc not ignorant of mathematics." ' O It will easily be understood, that since the ancient geocentric... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 pages
...which things,' says he, in reference to his views, 'though they be difficult and almost incredible, and against the opinion of the majority, yet in the...least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics.' But while the great work of Copernicus revealed much of the divine order and beauty of the world, it... | |
 | 1871
...regard to his great discoveries, ' though they be difficult, and almost incredible, and contrary to the opinion of the majority, yet in the sequel, by...least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics.' Thus did this great man, toiling like a giant in his great vocation, and sustained by his faith in... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1879 - 358 pages
...almost inconceivable, and against the opinion of the majority, yet, in the sequel, by God's favour, we will make clearer than the sun, at least to those who are not ignorant of mathematics." 8 Further, " one of the most remarkable passages in Copernicus is his conjecture that gravitation wan... | |
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... round the sun in a year among the other planets ; the magnitude of the world being so great, that the distance of the earth from the sun has no apparent magnitude when compared with the sphere of the fixed stars. 
