“ The geocentric system of astronomy, with its eccentrics and its epicycles, was an hypothesis utterly at variance with fact, which nevertheless did great things for the advancement of astronomical knowledge. ”
Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1887). copy citation
Author | Thomas Henry Huxley |
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Source | The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century |
Topic | knowledge astronomy advancement |
Date | 1887 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15253/15253-h/15253-h.htm |