 People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is, of course, the very best....  Appletons' Popular Science Monthly - Page 562edited by - 1896Full view - About this book
 | American essays - 1911 - 994 pages
...to kick a new truth round the block and then welcome it as a long-lost brother. Said Martin Luther, 'People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves. . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; but sacred Scripture tells us that... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1876 - 508 pages
...founders of Protestantism were no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine. Said Martin Luther, ' People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove...to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - History - 1876 - 154 pages
...founders of Protestantism were no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine. Said Martin Luther : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to app'ear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is, of course, the... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - Religion and science - 1876 - 164 pages
...founders of Protestantism were no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine. Said Martin Luther : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is, of course, the... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - Literary Criticism - 1876 - 164 pages
...founders of Protestantism were no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine. Said Martin Luther : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is, of course, the... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - Religion and science - 1877 - 200 pages
...founders of Protestantism were no less zealous against the new scientific doctrine. Said Martin Luther : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the son and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems... | |
 | De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - Christian biography - 1878 - 1146 pages
...Germany was the first Protestant, and therefore Protestant persecution began with him. Says this monk : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is, of course, the... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1880 - 476 pages
...of Protestantism were no less zealous against the new scientific doctrines. Said Martin Luther : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...show that the earth revolves, not the heavens, or the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems... | |
 | John McDowell Leavitt - Apologetics - 1884 - 186 pages
...Reformation, the enemy of popes, the hero and the herald of intellectual emancipation ! He says: " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer, who strove...revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun or the moon." But what were the views of the mild and conservative Melancthon, the theologian of the... | |
 | Science - 1892 - 900 pages
...to Scripture; and, at a later period, the Puritans showed the same tendency. Said Martin Luther : " People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove...the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the... | |
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