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Thomas Henry Huxley about knowledge (“The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century”, 1887) - 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.

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“ 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

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Source

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

Topic

knowledge astronomy advancement

Date

1887

Language

English

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