The stars and their stories; a book for young people (1913)
Griffiths, Mary Matlock, comp · New York, H. Holt and Company · leaf 264
power, that the great factfound admission to the human mind. It is supposed that in the very dawn of the science,Pythagoras or his disciples explained the apparent mo-tion of the heavenly bodies about the earth by the diurnalrevolution of the earth on its axis. But this theory,though bearing so… … Interior of the 90-Foot Dome of Yerkes Observatory ASTRONOMY THROUGH THE AGES 235 minds like those of Aristotle, Archimedes, Hipparchus,Ptolemy, or any of the acute and learned Arabians ormediaeval astronomers. All their ingenuity and alltheir mathematical skill were exhausted in the develop-ment…
Stars · Constellations · Mythology, Classical
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