 | William Wright Hardwicke - 1899 - 326 páginas
...325), asserted the globular theory of the earth to be heretical, and said : " Is it possible that man can be so absurd as to believe that the crops and the trees on the other side of the earth hang downwards, and that men have their feet higher than their heads ?" Then he admits that the philosophers,... | |
 | Willis Mason West - 1902 - 674 páginas
...514), speaks of the doctrine in these words : — " Is it possible men can believe that the crops and trees on the other side of the earth hang downward,...that men have their feet higher than their heads ? If yon ask them how they defend these monstrosities, how things do not fall away from the earth on that... | |
 | Stanley Hughes Le Fleming - 1904 - 702 páginas
...Lactantius (Intt. 1. iii. 23), quoted by Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (ed. 1847), vol. ip 371, 'that men can be so absurd as to believe that the crops and trees on the other side of the earth hang downwards, and that men there have their feet higher than... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1905 - 752 páginas
...therein. "Is it possible," says Lactantius, another father of the Church of the same period, "that man can be so absurd as to believe that the crops and the trees on the other side of the earth hang downwards and that men have their feet higher than their heads?" The ink was hardly dry on Constantine's... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 512 páginas
...can be so absurd as to believe that there are crops and the trees on the other side of the earth that hang downward, and that men have their feet higher...If you ask them how they defend these monstrosities 1 how things do not fall away from the earth on that side ? they reply that the nature of things is... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 516 páginas
...could never traverse, that his eyes might never see. CHAPTER V BION AND THE DOCTRINE OF A ROUND EARTH Is it possible that men can be so absurd as to believe that there are crops and the trees on the other side of the earth that hang downward, and that men have... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 512 páginas
...that all the after flood of years would not disturb ? CHAPTER V BION AND THE DOCTRINE OF A ROUND EARTH Is it possible that men can be so absurd as to believe that there are crops and the trees on the other side of the earth that hang downward, and that men have... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 páginas
...could never traverse, that his eyes might never see. CHAPTER V BION AND THE DOCTRINE OF A ROUND EARTH Is it possible that men can be so absurd as to believe that there are crops and the trees on the other side of the earth that hang downward, and that men have... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1904 - 638 páginas
...Lactantius (Inst. \. iii. 33), quoted by Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences (ed. 1847), vol. ip 271, 'that men can be so absurd as to believe that the crops and trees on the other side of the earth hang downwards, and that men there have their feet higher than... | |
 | John Maxcy Zane - 1927 - 540 páginas
...Lactantius, one of the great early writers of the Church, discoursed in this fashion on the question: "Is it possible that men can be so absurd as to believe that there are crops and trees on the other side of the earth that hang downward, and that men have their... | |
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If you ask them how they defend these monstrosities ? how things do not fall away from the earth on that side ? they reply that the nature of things is such, that heavy bodies tend... 
