"These seven bodies were the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, all of which were documented by the Babylonians over three thousand years ago. Until the sixteenth century, the most commonly held view was that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe and that the seven bodies revolved around the Earth."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
, Antimony, Gold, And Jupiter’s Wolf How The Elements Were Named (2019) p. 2.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Geocentric_model
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"Both ancient and medieval observers had noted that in many respects nature appeared to be governed by the principle o…"
"Ptolemy... against the champions of this or that cosmology of the heavens... had dared to claim that it is legitimate…"
"Galileo had the experience of beholding the heavens as they actually are for perhaps the first time, and wherever he …"
"The Greek philosopher, Plato, in the fourth century B.C. asked his students if they could devise a theory or explanat…"
"The fundamental core of contemporary Darwinism, the theory of DNA-based reproduction and evolution, is now beyond dis…"
"The present revolution of scientific thought follows in natural sequence on the great revolutions at earlier epochs i…"
"Fundamental changes in science have always been accompanied by deeper digging toward the philosophical foundations. C…"
"Persisting in their original resolve to destroy me and everything mine by any means they can think of, these men are …"
"It may be true that and (not science and evolution) are among the causes of atheism and materialism. It is at least e…"
"The odd thing about this story is that the heliocentric view was known in Europe long before Copernicus but, for vari…"