"earth" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ptolemy could accurately account for the movements of the planets, if one pretended that they traveled not just in circles, but in circles within circles around a stationary Earth.
- In Ptolemy's school of thought, cycles and epicycles (with some additional concepts) were used for modeling the movements of the planets in a cosmos that had a stationary Earth at its center.
- Earlier thinkers about other worlds had imagined parallel versions of a Dante's Inferno pocket universe, centered on a stationary Earth.
- The ancient paradigms still persisted: the stationary Earth, a sky laden with spheres, crude Aristotelian protophysics.
- According to Aristotle's physical interpretation of the model, celestial spheres eternally rotate with uniform motion around a stationary Earth.
- The experiments were created to argue the idea of a rotating Earth as opposed to a stationary Earth around which rotated the Sun and planets and stars.
- On a stationary Earth the warm air would rise at the equator, moving to the poles where it would sink and flow back to the equator along the surface.
- This allowed him to explore alternatives to the Aristotelian notion of a stationary Earth, as he explored the idea of a moving Earth instead.
- A geocentric view of the seasons presents an explanation of the year's four seasons from the frame of reference of a stationary Earth with the Sun revolving around it.
- For the purposes of a sundial, an excellent approximation assumes that the Sun revolves around a stationary Earth on the celestial sphere, which rotates every 24 hours about its celestial axis.
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