 | Bernard Nieuwentijdt - Natural theology - 1721 - 430 pages
...each other. For Inftance, let the Plane of the Paper upon which is drawn the third Figure in faff. XXII. be the Plane in which the Sun revolves about...the Earth (or the Earth about the Sun, for we do not difputethat Matter here) ?nd let the Oval Figure E AFB, be in this fame Plane ; then let us farther... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1729 - 546 pages
...aftronomers. For the periodic times are the feme, and the dimenfions of the orbits are the fame, •whether the Sun revolves about the Earth, or the Earth about the Sun. And as to the meafures of the periodic times, all aftronomers are agreed about them. But for the dimenfions... | |
 | John Clarke - Celestial mechanics - 1730 - 382 pages
...Body. And the periodical Times are the fame, and the Dimenfions of their Orbs are the fame, whether the Sun revolves about the Earth, or the Earth about the Sun. And as to the length of the periodical Times, it is agreed amongft all Aftronomers. But Kepler and... | |
 | Edward Moore - 1903 - 410 pages
...to detect by the sight whether we are ourselves in the moving or the stationary train. So, whether the sun revolves about the earth or the earth about the sun, there is absolutely no difference in the resulting visible phenomena, which are the subject of astronomical... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1898 - 618 pages
...to detect by the sight whether we are ourselves in the moving or the stationary train. So, whether the sun revolves about the earth or the earth about the sun, there is absolutely no difference in the resulting visible phenomena, which are the subject of astronomical... | |
 | Jong-Ping Hsu, Dana Fine - Science - 2005 - 664 pages
...astronomers ; for "the periodic times are the same, and the dimensions of the orbits are the same, whether the sun revolves about the earth, or the earth about the sun. And as to the measures of the periodic times, all astronomers are agreed about them. But for the dimensions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1898 - 630 pages
...to detect by the sight whether we are ourselves in the moving or the stationary train. So, whether the sun revolves about the earth or the earth about the sun, there is absolutely no difference in the resulting visible phenomena, which are the subject of astronomical... | |
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Kepler, is now received by all astronomers; for the periodic times are the same, and the dimensions of the orbits are the same, whether the sun revolves about the earth, or the earth about the sun. And as to the measures of the periodic times, all astronomers... 