Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... Earth were problems which occupied Greek philosophers from the earliest times . Thales thought that the Earth was flat , for Anaximander it was shaped like a drum , but even initially the Pythagoreans thought that the Earth was ...
... Earth were problems which occupied Greek philosophers from the earliest times . Thales thought that the Earth was flat , for Anaximander it was shaped like a drum , but even initially the Pythagoreans thought that the Earth was ...
60. oldal
... Earth round the central fire in the course of one day . The inmost sphere moves a globe invisible to us , the ' anti - Earth ' , which also performs a revolution about the centre in the course of one day , always opposite to the Earth ...
... Earth round the central fire in the course of one day . The inmost sphere moves a globe invisible to us , the ' anti - Earth ' , which also performs a revolution about the centre in the course of one day , always opposite to the Earth ...
305. oldal
... Earth from the Sun , and the height of the firmament [ that is the distance of the fixed stars from the Sun ] is so much smaller than the ratio between the radius of the Earth and its distance from the Sun , that the distance of the ...
... Earth from the Sun , and the height of the firmament [ that is the distance of the fixed stars from the Sun ] is so much smaller than the ratio between the radius of the Earth and its distance from the Sun , that the distance of the ...
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