As you will see by the opposite picture, there is no protective spathe for the golden floral club.
Christ himself had no knowledge whatever of astronomy--indeed, he looked out upon heaven and earth, nature and man, from the very narrowest geocentric and anthropocentric point of view.
The curious adventures of Christ after his death, the descent into hell, resurrection, and ascension, are also fantastic myths due to the narrow geocentric ideas of an uneducated people.
God himself is anthropomorphically conceived as an "Almighty Creator" and the Father of man; heaven (in the sense of the geocentric system) is imagined as a great blue vault spanning the earth.
In the picturing of this future life the mediaeval geocentric idea still forms the chief feature.
But its roots were destroyed when Copernicus refuted thegeocentric theory in 1545; and athanatism became quite untenable when Darwin shattered the dogma of anthropocentricism.
With the abandonment of the geocentric theory, and of the doctrine of the human destiny of the universe, have vanished the unworthy hypotheses of the recent date of creation and the approaching end of all things.
Sidenote: The geocentric doctrine adopted by the Church.
Geocentric theory, its adoption by the Church, ii.
I have already, in sufficient detail, described how the Roman Church had been constrained by her position to uphold the geocentric doctrine.
Position of Man according to the Heliocentric and Geocentric Theories.
Which was also, come to think of it, moving awfully fast in relation to their liaison-point with the geocentric point of the universe!
You're aware, of course, of the geocentric theory of the universe?
The relation ofgeocentric to apparent co-ordinates depends upon the latitude of the observer.
The choice made by Hipparchus of the geocentric theory of the universe decided the future of Greek astronomy.
Of course, so long as the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions dominate, it is natural that the lore of stability should impress itself upon science and life.
While the geocentric and anthropocentric illusions have been dispelled, the illusion of the immobility and eternity of classes still persists.
After the geocentric illusion had been destroyed, the anthropocentric illusion still remained.
Geocentric latitude (of place) the angle included between the radius of the earth through the place and the plane of the equator, in distinction from geographic latitude.
Horizontal parallax, the geocentric parallx of a heavenly body when in the horizon, or the angle subtended at the body by the earth's radius.
The second step is to compute certain elements of the eclipse from these geocentric positions.
The geocentric positions of the sun and moon have first to be computed from the tables of the motions of those bodies.
The national Astronomical Ephemerides, or "Nautical Almanacs," give in full the geocentric positions of the sun and moon from at least the early part of the 19th century to an epoch three years in advance of the date of publication.
However, as time passed, the geocentric doctrine, the doctrine that the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun and planets revolve about it, was the theory that held the highest respect.
Contemporary science, especially astrophysics, renders the whole set of assumptions underlying the anthropomorphic andgeocentric supernaturalism of the past absolutely archaic and preposterous.
To further reduce these true longitudes into their geocentric equivalents, i.
In either case the result will be the angle of longitude between the planet and the Sun as seen from the Earth, and hence its geocentric longitude may be known.
But a more convenient method of obtaining the approximate longitudes of the planets geocentrically is by means of the Planetary Geocentric periods.
For the calculation of the approximate geocentric longitude of the major planets these periods are very useful, but are of less value in regard to the minor planets Venus and Mercury.
The burning of Bruno, the imprisonment of Galileo by the Catholics, the condemnation of the works of Kepler by the Protestants of Germany, could not save the erroneous geocentric theory.
When the geocentric theory prevailed, men had only a very narrow conception of the amount of matter that really existed, just as they had but a meagre conception of the extent of space.
Enough has been said to show that the false geocentric theory has been displaced by the heliocentric doctrine, which has been demonstrated to be true.
In the centuries named the geocentric theory respecting the universe prevailed.
At this point the geocentric doctrine is being abandoned and the heliocentric takes its place.
Geocentric latitude is the angular distance of a place from the equator, as corrected for the oblateness of the earth's form; in other words, it is the geographical latitude diminished by the angle of the vertical.
The geocentric doctrine passed to the Epinomis as a continuation of the Treatise De Legibus.
This gave a shock to the "geocentric theory" from which it never recovered.
A religion indissolubly associated with a geocentric conception of the universe would tend to become discredited as soon as that conception had been disposed of by "systematic knowledge.
Men standing for the geocentric theory were opposed by others, siding with Galileo for the solar system, such as the learned Benedictine, Castelli.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "geocentric" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
