The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that
the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high
are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except
the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme
velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the
earth were stationary and the heaven in motion...
-- Cicero, Academica, 45 B.C.
the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high
are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except
the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme
velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the
earth were stationary and the heaven in motion...
-- Cicero, Academica, 45 B.C.
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spheres.
I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world... - Heaven and earth were created all together in the same instant,
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the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work... - Dammit, this thing won't die!
--
Famous Last... - People who go to conferences are the ones who
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