 | Alexander Adam - 1794 - 748 pages
...and Macrob. in loc. PHII.OI.AUS, the fcholar of Pythagoras, and Archytas of Tarentum, Cic. Or. Hi. 34. firft taught publicly the diurnal motion of the...Copernicus the firft idea of that fyftem which he eftablifhed. METON, born at Leuconje, a village near Athens, is faid to have invented the LUNAR CYCLE,... | |
 | William Butler - Astronomy - 1803 - 434 pages
...the beautiful diverfity of feafons : * Philolaus, a native of Crotona. and the fcholar of Pythagoras, firft taught publicly the diurnal motion of the earth...round its axis, and its annual motion round the fun. Philobus flourifhed about 37 j years BC Crotona, fometimes called Crnto and Croton, was fituated on... | |
 | Christoph Christian Sturm - Calendars - 1824 - 284 pages
...darkness. MARCH 30. THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE SEASONS IN THE OTHER PLANETS. FROM the diurnal rotation of the Earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the Sun, we derive innumerable advantages. Does not this circumstance authorize us to presume that the... | |
 | Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1830 - 630 pages
...in a fluid in the direction of its base. 12. Enumerate the arguments by which the diurnal rotation of the Earth round its axis and its annual motion round the Sun are established. 13. Transform the equation a:3 — pxz •+• qx — r = о, whose roots are... | |
 | John Lemprière - Classical dictionaries - 1832 - 444 pages
...had killed two of his companious. A Pythagorean philosopher of Crotona, BC 374, who first supported the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sup, A lawgiver of Thehes. He was a native of Corinth, and of the family of the BacchLuies. A mechanic... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 366 pages
...known star cut the equator in a given angle ? 65. Enumerate the arguments by which the diurnal rotation of the earth round its axis and its annual motion round the sun, are established. 66. In any latitude find when the time of the rising of the sun's disk bears... | |
 | London univ - 1852 - 358 pages
...which they obtain the equation V=mai>(ai-l). 7. Enumerate the arguments by which the diurnal rotation of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sun, are established. 8. Find the angle two distant places in the same terrestrial meridian subtend... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1872 - 602 pages
...Athens for seventy years. Philolaus, a Pythagorian philosopher of Crotona, BC 374. He first supported the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sun. Cicero (Acad. iv. 39), has ascribed this opinion to the Syracusan philosopher Nicetas, and likewise... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1901 - 606 pages
...Athens for seventy years. Philolaus, a Pythagorian philosopher of Crotona, BC 374. He first supported the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sun. Cicero (Acad. iv. 39), lias ascribed this opinion to the Syracusan philosopher Nicetas, and likewise... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 302 pages
...Athens for seventy years. Philolaus, a Pythagorean philosopher of Crotona, BC 374. He first supported the diurnal motion of the earth round its axis, and its annual motion round the sun. Cicero (Acad. iv. 39) has ascribed this opinion to the Syracusan philosopher Nicetas, and likewise... | |
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... eclipses were occasioned by the temporary extinction of the sun, and that there were several suns for the convenience of the different climates of the earth. Yet this man held the chair of philosophy at Athens for seventy years. Philolaus, a Pythagorian... 