 | 560 pages
...firmament carries them round the earth, considered as immoveable, or whether the earth itself revolves into a contrary direction, it seems much more natural to...the heavens as only apparent. The earth is a globe not 8000 miles in diameter ; but the diameter of the Sun is nearly 100 times larger. If its centre... | |
 | 1822 - 440 pages
...same appearances to us, whether the firmament carries them round theearth, considered as immoveable, or whether the earth itself revolves in a contrary...the heavens as only apparent. The earth is a globe, not 8000 miles in diameter; but the diameter of the Sun is nearly 100 times larger. If its centre coincided... | |
 | George G. Carey - 1825 - 274 pages
...heavenly bodies present the same appearancesto us, whether the firmament carries them round the earth, or the earth itself revolves in a contrary direction, it seems much more natural to admit the latter hypothesis than the former, and to regard the motion of the heavens as only apparent. •... | |
 | James Ryan - 1827 - 408 pages
...same appearances to us, whether the firmament carries them round the earth, considered as immoveable, or whether the earth itself revolves in a contrary...and to regard that of the heavens as only apparent. Carried on with a velocity which is common to every thing that surrounds us, we are in the case of... | |
 | 1835 - 398 pages
...heavenly bodies present the same appearances to us, whether the firmament carries them round the earth, or the earth itself revolves in a contrary direction, it seems much more natural to admit the latter hypothesis than the former, and to ferent distances from each other, and that these distances... | |
 | 1867 - 566 pages
...heavenly bodies present the same appearance to us, whether the firmament carries them round the earth, or the earth itself revolves in a contrary direction, it seems much more natural to admit the latter hypothesis than the former, and to regard the motion of the heavens as only apparent. The... | |
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But since the heavenly bodies present the same appearances to us, whether the firmament carries them round theearth, considered as immoveable, or whether the earth itself revolves in a contrary direction, it seems much more natural to admit this latter... 