 Besides, the Jews and other ancient nations as well as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days, and have named them from the seven planets : now if we increase the number of the planets this whole system falls to the ground.  The Complete Works of Thomas Dick - Page 786by Thomas Dick - 1850Full view - About this book
 | John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1832 - 314 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations, as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...the planets, this whole system falls to the ground." To these remarks Galileo calmly replied, that whatever their force might be, as a reason for believing... | |
 | 1833 - 208 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations, as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...the planets, this whole system falls to the ground." pp. 91, 92. The science of astrology, (if science it may be called,) was doubtless as ancient as that... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations as modern Europeans have [adopted the division of the week into seven...the planets this whole system falls to the ground." To these remarks Galileo calmly replied, that whatever their force might be, as a reason for believing... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...the planets this whole system falls to the ground." To these remarks Galileo calmly replied, that whatever their force might be, as a reason for believing... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...the planets this whole system falls to the ground." To these remarks Galileo calmly replied, that whatever their force might be, as a reason for believing... | |
 | 1839 - 868 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations as modern Europeans have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...seven planets ; now, if we increase the number of planets, this whole system falls to the ground 111"* " Quoted from Mr Drinkwatcr'i excellent Life of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1841 - 486 pages
...and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations, as modern Europeans, have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...the seven planets. Now, if we increase the number of planets, this whole system falls to the ground." When, at length, the astronomers of the schools found... | |
 | 1860 - 1172 pages
...and therefore DO NOT EXIST. Besides, as well the Jews and other ancient nations, as modern Europeans, have adopted the division of the week into seven days,...seven planets ; now, if we increase the number of planets, this whole system falls to the ground."* The author of the above was a Tuscan astronomer,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1860 - 1174 pages
...other ancient nations, as modern Europeans, have adopted the division of the week into seven days, aud have named them from the seven planets ; now, if we increase the number of planets, this whole system falls to the ground."* The author of the above was a Tuscan astronomer,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1845 - 608 pages
...the earth, and therefore would be useless, and therefore do not exist. Besides, as well the Jews as other ancient nations have adopted the division of...following : — Some thought that the dark shades on the moon's surface arose from the interposition of opaque bodies floating between her and the sun, which... | |
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