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" In the earlier ages of the church it held that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun. moon, and stars revolved around it. "
The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution ... - Page 263
by Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 512 pages
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The Ladies' Repository, Volume 17

Methodist Episcopal Church - 1857 - 830 pages
...by Dr. Bcecher himself. In all tho early ages it was assumed that the earth stood immovably fixed in the center of the universe, and that the sun, moon, and stars revolved diurnally around it. This hypothesis accounted apparently for the observed motions of the heavenly...
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Evolution of Sound: Part of the Problem of Human Life Here and Hereafter ...

Alexander Wilford Hall - Evolution - 1878 - 300 pages
...progress. The Ptolemaic theory of astronomy, which made the earth the center of the universe, and taught that the sun, moon, and stars revolved around it every twentyfour hours, and which had stood for two thousand years comparatively unchallenged, just because each preceding...
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The Electric Theory of Astronomy

Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - Solar system - 1886 - 254 pages
...overturn the Ptolemaic theory (which had dominated the public mind for centuries), te, that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun, moon, and stars revolved around it, after seeing the first copy of his able work setting forth the present system, died, in 1543, without...
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Manford's Magazine, Volume 31

1887 - 784 pages
...science did this, our little world was considered to be in the centre of creation, and it was believed that the sun, moon and stars revolved around it every twenty-four hours. Our little planet was the most important place which God has created, and the Lord was supposed to...
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Universalism and Problems of the Universalist Church: Or, A Statement of Our ...

William Frost Crispin - Unitarian Universalist churches - 1888 - 378 pages
...science did this, our little world was considered to be in the centre of creation, and it was believed that the sun, moon and stars revolved around it every twenty-four hours. Our little planet was the most important place which God has created, and the Lord was supposed to...
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The Unitarian, Volume 6

Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1891 - 616 pages
...friendly and helping hand. In the earlier ages of the Church it held that the earth was the centre of the universe, and that the sun, moon, and stars revolved around it. To disbelieve this doctrine was a denial of the plain teaching of the Bible, rank heresy. And for teaching...
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Vision: A Magazine for Youth, Volume 7

Mormons - 1894 - 646 pages
...to science a friendly and helping hand. In the earlier ages of the church it held that the earth was the center of the universe, and that the sun. moon, and stars revolved around it. To disbelieve this doctrine was a denial of the plain teaching of the Bible, rank heresy. And for teaching...
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The Cambrian, Volumes 18-19

Welsh - 1898 - 1236 pages
...belief thai the world was created in six days and out of nothing; that the earth was stationary and the center of the universe, and that the sun, moon and stars revolved around it as satellites or servient luminaries. Man was made and modeled from clay, inspired with life, and in...
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Comets, Their Origin, Nature and History

Henry William Elson - Comets - 1910 - 80 pages
...study of Comets a glance at the Solar System will be in place. The ancients believed that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun, moon, and stars revolved around it once in twenty-four hours. It was Copernicus, a Polish astronomer, born nineteen years before Columbus...
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True Stories of Old Houston and Houstonians

Samuel Oliver Young - History - 1913 - 258 pages
...bear?'r Jimmy had some original ideas about astronomy and held with the ancients that the earth is the center of the universe and that the sun, moon and stars revolve around it. He admitted that the earth is round, but claimed that it is round like a bowl, and...
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