...systems is, of course, the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy. But Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." Melanchthon, mild as he was, was not behind Luther in condemning Kopernik. In his treatise,...

...systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." Melanchthon, mild as he was, was not behind Luther in condemning Copernicus. In his treatise...

...firmament, the sun and the moon. . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." Melauchthon argued in the same strain, and Calvin asked who would dare " to place the authority...

...the book was placed in the hands of its author only a few hours before his death on 23rd May 1543. This ' upstart astrologer ' ; this ' fool who wishes...Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth ' — these are Luther's words — was, therefore, beyond the grip of the Holy Inquisition. But...

...Copernicus an upstart astrologer, and a fool, denied that the Earth revolves, and remarked that ' ' Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the Sun to stand still, and not the Earth." The powerful denounced and attacked the true theory of the solar system ; the ignorant ridiculed....

...systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; but Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." Certainly this argument was incontrovertible when the Bible was avowedly the infallible and...

...and twice execrable." He spoke of the great discoverer Copernicus as an " upstart astrologer," a " fool who wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy,"...Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth " (Clodd, "Pioneers of Evolution," 1897, pp. 80, 82). The Protestant Reformation did not free...

...discoverer Copernicus as an " upstart astrologer," a " fool who wishes to reverse the entire science o. astronomy," for " sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth " (Clodd, " Pioneers of Evolution," ig97' pp. 80, 82). The Protestant Reformation did not free...

...firmament, the sun and the moon. . . . This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy, but sacred scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still and not the earth." The mild and gentle Melanchthon was not a whit behind his great leader in his indignant denunciations:...

...systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; but Sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth." Certainly this argument was incontrovertible when the Bible was avowedly the infallible and...