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" The proposition that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable from its place is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scripture. "
Elementary Arithmetic: With Brief Notices of Its History - Page 4
by Robert Potts - 1876
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1856 - 766 pages
...and they laid down, that ' the proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world, and immoveable from its place, is absurd, philosophically false and...because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scriptures; and the proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immoveable, but that it moves,...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1865 - 1194 pages
...arrest the force of gravitation by solemnly condemning it. " The proposition that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable from its place is absurd,...formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to Holy Scripture. The proposition that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immovable, but that...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1878 - 1002 pages
...and immovable by local motion, is absurd, philosophically false and formally heretical, etc. ' (2.) That the earth is not the centre of the world nor immovable, bnt that it moves, nnd also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false and theologically...
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A Universal Biography: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical ..., Volume 5

John Platts - 1826 - 882 pages
...the two propositions, that the sun is the centre of the world, and immovable by a local motion ; and that the earth is not the centre of the world, nor immovable, but moves with a diurnal motion. These propositions he was ordered by a decree of the Inquisitors to renounce,...
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Life of Galileo Galilei: With Illustrations of the Advancement of ...

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1832 - 314 pages
...qualified by the Theological Qualifiers as follows. "1st. The proposition that the Sun is in the centre of the world and immovable from its place, is absurd, philosophically false, and formally lieretical ; because it is expressly contrary to the Holy Scripture.'2dly. The proposition that the...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...philosophically falae, and formally heretical; because it ii expressly contrary to the Holy Scripture. " -idly. The proposition that the Earth is not the centre of the world, nor immoveable, but that it moues, and also with a diurnal motion, is also absurd, philosophically false,...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...Qualifiers as follows : " 1st. The proposition that the Sun is in the centre of the world and immoveable from its place, is absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical; because it in expressly contrary to the Holy Scripture. " Idly. The proposition that the Earth is not the centre...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 7

1836 - 706 pages
...not believe that ' the proposition that the sun is in the centre of the world, and immoveable from Us place, is absurd, philosophically false, and formally...heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the Scriptures,' * we can easily imagine, that priestcraft would eagerly grasp at every instrument, artificial...
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The North American Review, Volume 42

Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1836 - 588 pages
...cardinals of the Catholic church declared the doctrine of Galileo in regard to the solar system to be " absurd, philosophically false, and formally heretical, because it is expressly contrary to the holy scripture," they proved the insufficiency of the mere study of revelation to make men philosophically...
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The North American Review, Volume 42

1836 - 598 pages
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