 | Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers - 1890 - 374 pages
...meridian with the given line. Thus we record one relatively to the other. In the same way we speak of the sun rising in the east, and setting in the west, but this appearance is due to the earth turning upon its axis from west to east in 24 hours. It will be... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston - 1957 - 384 pages
...and for the man who does not accept it or knows nothing of it. As far as appearances go, both men see the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. But the Copernican hypothesis accounts for facts which cannot be accounted for on the geocentric hypothesis.... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 388 pages
...and for the man who does not accept it or knows nothing of it. As far as appearances go, both men see the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. But the Copernican hypothesis accounts for facts which cannot be accounted for on the geocentric hypothesis.... | |
 | John Scalzi - 2003 - 440 pages
...planet in the solar system with a retrograde rotation. Every other planet in the neighbourhood has the Sun rising in the east and setting in the west, but Venus has the Sun rising in the This radar-based map of the Venusian surface from orbit was created... | |
 | Fulton John Sheen, Henry Dieterich - 2003 - 240 pages
...world in which each of us would have sprouted goodness with the same necessity, for example, as that of the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. But he chose not to make that kind of a world, not to make a world in which we would be good, as fire is... | |
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... What is the advantage of such an hypothesis? It can be illustrated in this way. Appearances are the same both for the man who accepts the Copernican hypothesis that the earth revolves round the sun and for the man who does not accept it or knows nothing... 