 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1904 - 442 páginas
...of Colum bus, that the world was round. " Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes, with their feet opposite to ours ; people...there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy turvy ; where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows... | |
 | Frederick Albion Ober - 1906 - 338 páginas
...citations from a revered religious writer: "Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes, with their feet opposite to ours ; people...trees grow with their branches downward, and where the hail, rain, and snow fall upward?" For a man to defend the theory of the earth's rotundity, and... | |
 | JOHN R. MUSICK - 1907 - 610 páginas
...friar read: " 'Is there any one so foolish as to believe there are antipodes with their feet opposite ours; people who walk with their heels upward and...the world in which all things are topsy-turvy; where trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward? The idea of the... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1908 - 556 páginas
...friar read: " 'Is there any one so foolish as to believe there are antipodes with their feet opposite ours; people who walk with their heels upward and...the world in which all things are topsy-turvy; where trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails, and snows upward? The idea of the... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 712 páginas
...unworthy of so grave a theologian. " Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward, and then- heads hanging down? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy: where... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1909 - 714 páginas
...theologian. " Is there any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are antipodes with then- feet opposite to ours; people who walk with their heels upward, and then- heads hanging down? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy: where... | |
 | Charles Loftus Grant Anderson - 1911 - 702 páginas
...sea." Likewise Lactantius, who had said : "Is there anyone so foolish as to believe that there are Antipodes, with their feet opposite to ours ; people who walk with their heels upwards and their heads hanging down — where everything is topsy-turvey ; where the trees grow with... | |
 | Jeremiah J. Crowley - 1912 - 714 páginas
...ridiculing the globular theory of the earth : "Is there any one so foolish as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours — people...with their heels upward and their heads hanging down ?" And St. Augustine declared it impossible that races on the opposite side of the earth could have... | |
 | William Lewis Nida - 1912 - 418 páginas
...their feet toward ours : people who walk with their heels upward and their heads hanging down : where trees grow with their branches downward and where it rains, hails, and snows upward? " And he laughed Columbus to scorn. So at this time nothing was done by the Spanish rulers to aid our... | |
 | Henry Buswell Wetherill - 1914 - 330 páginas
...it was foolishness to 'believe that there are people over against us on the other side of the world with their feet opposite to ours, people who walk...downward and where it rains, hails, and snows upward '. Before such men Colombus had to defend his plan of sailing to India westward. He quoted from the... | |
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Is there any one so foolish," he asks, " as to believe that there are antipodes with their feet opposite to ours : people who walk with their heels upward, and their heads hanging down ? That there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy... 
