Bucky Fuller used sphericity to make his kind of buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Monetary and Fiscal Failure, Fraud, and Fear of What's Next] Reference
I hope that these deviations from sphericity are not terribly large for sn1's. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today] Reference
Of course unlike the sphericity of the Earth, you have to do more than look at a photograph to figure it out. From Wordnik.com. [Why Do So Many Doctors Accept Evolution? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The other three, no longer quite able to attain sphericity and thus moving more slowly than normally, followed. From Wordnik.com. [The Trellisane Confrontation] Reference
Spanish Moors had recognized the sphericity of the earth and were teaching geography from globes in their common schools. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
He did indeed accept the doctrine of the earth's sphericity, but with that exception his cosmological views must be called reactionary. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
By the same token, the shadow thrown by the moon on the sun in a partial solar eclipse demonstrated ocularly the sphericity of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Ionian school, and taught the sphericity of the Earth, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the true causes of eclipses of the Sun and Moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'] Reference
Theophrastus, who is the primary basis of the doxographical tradition, says that it was Parmenides who discovered the sphericity of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Pythagoras] Reference
We also know that he discovered the sphericity of the earth, and the numerical ratios of the intervals between the concordant notes of the octave. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The shape of the fruit varies considerably, being spherical, oblong, and egg-shaped, but the nearer they approach sphericity of figure, the more highly are they prized. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
But long before his day there were men who believed in the sphericity of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself. sphericity n. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
One of them has the size and smoothness and plump sphericity of a balloon of the biggest pattern. From Wordnik.com. [Following the Equator] Reference
The sphericity of the earth had been suggested speculatively as far back as the time of Pythagoras. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Dominion] Reference
But the ancient germ of scientific truth in geography -- the idea of the earth's sphericity -- still lived. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
There seems no reason to doubt, however, that Parmenides actually held the doctrine of the earth's sphericity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
But, as civilization was developed, there were evolved, especially among the Greeks, ideas of the earth's sphericity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
As thus the case of sphericity is not an exactly parallel one, intelligence may very well produce an effect similar to itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
He did not even recognize the sphericity of the earth, but held, still following the Oriental authorities, that the world is a flat disk. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
But demonstration of the sphericity of the earth had, of course, no direct bearing upon the question of the earth's position in the universe. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science] Reference
With the Particles, or simplest state, of mat - ter, then, it is highly probable, that t! ie simplest form — perfect sphericity, is connected. From Wordnik.com. [Treatise on the influence of climate on the human species; and on the varieties of men resulting from it; including an account of the criteria of intelligence, which the form of the head presents; and a sketch of a rational system of physiognomy as founded in physiology] Reference
Strabo the geographer, p. 255 -- His belief in the globe's sphericity, P. 258 -- His division of the earth into zones, p. 262 -- Pliny the elder. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
Some of the ancients seem to have surmised the sphericity of the earth, and to have thought that Hades was simply its dark side, the dead being our antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
He had pondered over ancient thought in science, and, as we have seen, had dared proclaim his belief in the sphericity of the earth; but with that he stopped. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Aristotle accepted the sphericity of the earth, and that doctrine became a commonplace of scientific knowledge, and so continued throughout classical antiquity. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
Could we know the whole truth, it would perhaps appear that the idea of the sphericity of the earth was originated long before the time of the Greek philosophers. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
Obviously this doctrine of the globe's sphericity had, in the course of 600 years, become so firmly established among the Greek thinkers as to seem almost axiomatic. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
Lactantius referred to the ideas of those studying astronomy as "bad and senseless," and opposed the doctrine of the earth's sphericity both from Scripture and reason. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
Internet utilisation Factor Analysis (Analysis of the correlation matrix: Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin 0.676; Bartlett's test of sphericity p = 0.000; Varimax Rotated Matrix) FACTOR 1. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Even while the doctrine of the sphericity of the earth was undecided, another question had been suggested which theologians finally came to consider of far greater importance. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom] Reference
But Bin Baz was frank about denying the earth’s sphericity while he proves it indisputably. From Wordnik.com. [Tuesday, January 27, 2009] Reference
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