For sphericityof earth see especially Migne, cols.
In Plutarch’s dialogue “On the face appearing in the orb of the moon,” one of the characters is lavish in his ridicule of the sphericity of the earth and of the theory of antipodes.
Asia, 1; inherited the idea of the sphericity of the earth, 31; inspired by anc.
He also maintains that the doctrine of the sphericity of the earth was familiar throughout the Middle Age, and, if anything, more of a favorite than the other view.
It was inevitable that St. Chrysostom, Lactantius, Orosius and Origines rejected or declined to teach the sphericity of the earth.
To the generation that succeeded him, the sphericity of the earth was a fact as capable of logical demonstration as a geometrical theorem.
St. Augustine did not deny the sphericity of the earth.
The sphericity of the earth once comprehended, there follow certain corollaries which the Greeks were not slow to perceive.
It has been supposed that the early Middle Ages, under the influence of barbarism and Christianity, ignored the sphericity of the earth, deliberately returning to the assumption of a plane surface, either wheel-shaped or rectangular.
During the tenth and eleventh centuries, the Spanish Moors had recognized the sphericity of the earth and were teaching geography from globes in their common schools.
He did not even recognize the sphericityof the earth, but held, still following the Oriental authorities, that the world is a flat disk.
The idea, not merely of the sphericity of the earth, but an explicit conception of the antipodes, is expressed.
Could we know the whole truth, it would perhaps appear that the idea of the sphericity of the earth was originated long before the time of the Greek philosophers.
The shadow-theory of Anaxagoras would naturally cease to have validity so soon as the sphericity of the earth was proved, and with it, seemingly, fell for the time the companion theory that the Milky Way is made up of a multitude of stars.
But in giving full meed of praise to Aristotle for the promulgation of this doctrine of the sphericity of the earth, it must unfortunately be added that the conservative philosopher paused without taking one other important step.
Aristotle accepted the sphericity of the earth, and that doctrine became a commonplace of scientific knowledge, and so continued throughout classical antiquity.
Obviously this doctrine of the globe's sphericity had, in the course of 600 years, become so firmly established among the Greek thinkers as to seem almost axiomatic.
When the patient becomes well, then health comes at the same time into existence: when the brazen sphere comes, the sphericity of it comes at the same time (a.
The conception of thesphericity of the earth was really a matter of mental training.
I then left it for the space of one year, as there was some doubt after putting on the brass plates as to whether the globe would retain its sphericity in winter and in summer.
There the cracks were filled in and the sphericity made more nearly perfect by laying over the surface about one hundred skins.
It was to substitute for the tedious indirection of the African route a direct western passage,—a belief in the practicability of which was drawn from a confidence in the sphericity of the earth.
The geographical ideas which bear on this question depend, of course, upon the sphericity of the earth.
As a speculative philosopher, he had arrived at a correct conclusion respecting the sphericity of the earth, and, with all the generosity of a humanitarian, he freely communicated his ideas to others.
It was, in brief, to substitute for the tedious indirection of the African route a direct western passage--a belief in the practicability of which was drawn from a confidence in the sphericity of the earth.
The doctrine of the sphericity of the earth was still held by the more learned, but the heads of the church held it to be unscriptural.
Lambert, indeed, seems to have believed in the sphericity of the earth.
The sphericity of the Globe being established, this reasoning was correct, for going always westward, the traveller must necessarily at last reach the east, and as to the route across the ocean, it would certainly be open.
His arguments for the sphericity of the earth, as derived from observation, are little more than a repetition of those of Ptolemy, and therefore not of special interest.
Then whatever parts either of the lens or of the polisher may be too high to form a spherical surface will be gradually worn down, thus securing the perfect sphericity of both.
He gives an elaborate demonstration of the sphericity of the earth, and it has been suggested by more than one scholar that his views on this subject led eventually to the discovery of America.
The sphericity of the earth was becoming a favorite belief, though it must be borne in mind that education in those days was confined to the cloister, and any departure from old founded tenets was regarded as heresy.
The teaching of the sphericity of the earth in the astronomical poem of Manilius, long a favorite with the monks of the Middle Ages, who repeated it in their labored script, appeared in type at Nuremberg at the same time.
The belief in the sphericity of the earth carried with it of necessity another,--that the east was to be found in the west.
Early in the Christian era we are told by an eminent Greek astronomer that the doctrine of the earth's sphericitywas accepted by all competent persons except the Epicureans.
The subject of greatest interest in this connection is, of course, the question whether or not Isidore believed in the sphericity of the earth.
Sphericity actuates a centre; and yet the centre thus actuated is not a sphere, but only the intrinsic term of sphericity.
In fact, before 1300, Dante was acquainted not only with the sphericityof the earth, but with the first law of gravitation--the tendency of things to their centre.
Columbus had long reflected upon the existence of land in the west, upon the sphericity of the earth, and upon the possibility of crossing the Atlantic.
And now Columbus had discovered the Western Continent, da Gama had found an ocean route to the Indies, and Magellan, sailing around the world, had proved its sphericity and approached the Spice Islands from the east.
Suppose it is a question of having the pupil grasp the idea of the sphericity of the earth.
Only by use as a method of interpreting data so as to give them fuller meaning does sphericity become a genuine idea.
He had a just idea of thesphericity of the earth; but considered it as the centre of the universe, and immovable.
In his first book he refutes the opinion of the sphericity of the earth, which he regarded as a heresy.
It is remarkable to notice that the proofs then used by geographers of the sphericity of the earth are just those which we should use now.
America as completing the demonstration of the sphericity of the earth.
In one of his writings he has stated that the sphericity of the earth can be observed from the fact that its shadow on the moon at the time of eclipse is an arc.
Pliny held that the earth hovers in the heavens upheld by the air, that its sphericity is proved by the fact that the mast of a ship approaching the land is visible before the hull comes in sight.
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