| William Whewell - 1837 - 486 páginas
...the earth hang downwards, and that men there have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ask of them how they defend these monstrosities ?—how things...the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the centre, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from... | |
| William Whewell - 1837 - 1048 páginas
...the earth hang downwards, and that men there have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ask of them how they defend these monstrosities ? — how...the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the centre, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 522 páginas
...that side? they reply, that the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the center, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from the center towards the heavens on all sides. Now I am really at a loss what to say of those who, when they... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 622 páginas
...the earth hang downwards, and that men there have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ask of them how they defend these monstrosities — how things...the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the centre, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from... | |
| William Whewell - 1858 - 582 páginas
...the earth hang downwards, and that men there have their feet higher than their heads ' If you ask of them how they defend these monstrosities — how things...away from the earth on that side — they reply, that thu nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the centre, like the spokes of a wheel,... | |
| Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 páginas
...have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ask of them how they defend these monstrosities—how things do not fall away from the earth on that side...the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the centre, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from... | |
| Arthur James Weise - 1884 - 442 páginas
...the earth hang downward, and that men there have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ak of them how they defend these monstrosities, how things...light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from the " They further opposed the arguments of the admiral by quoting those current fables respecting the... | |
| Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1887 - 334 páginas
...trees on the other side of the earth hang downwards, and that men have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ask them how they defend these monstrosities,...the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend towards the centre, like the spokes of a wheel, while light bodies, as clouds, smoke, fire, tend from... | |
| John William Draper - 1897 - 408 páginas
...trees on the other side of the earth hang downward, and that men have their feet higher than their heads ? If you ask them how they defend these monstrosities,...do not fall away from the earth on that side, they re ply that the nature of things is such that heavy bodies tend toward the centre, like the spokes... | |
| William Wright Hardwicke - 1899 - 334 páginas
...whom the Church was pronouncing to be heretical, had the true theory, for he says : " If you ask them how things do not fall away from the earth on that side, they [the philosophers] reply that heavy bodies tend towards the centre." Augustine, another Father of the... | |
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