The Great Ideas TodayRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia Britannica, 1961 |
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... earth's rotation . Thus a gyroscope in a laboratory appears to revolve once a day , although actually it is the laboratory that re- volves . It was thought this might be caused by the gentle gravitational tug of all rotating matter in ...
... earth's rotation . Thus a gyroscope in a laboratory appears to revolve once a day , although actually it is the laboratory that re- volves . It was thought this might be caused by the gentle gravitational tug of all rotating matter in ...
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... earth's cir- cumference lying between himself and the well . The arc was one fifti- eth of a full circle . From this , he calculated the circumference of the earth to be 250,000 stadia ( 28,740 miles ) , not far from the present- day ...
... earth's cir- cumference lying between himself and the well . The arc was one fifti- eth of a full circle . From this , he calculated the circumference of the earth to be 250,000 stadia ( 28,740 miles ) , not far from the present- day ...
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... EARTH The solid line is a perfect circle . The dotted line represents the traditional view of an earth symmetrically flattened at the poles . The dashed line shows the deviation from this pattern detected by studying the orbit of ...
... EARTH The solid line is a perfect circle . The dotted line represents the traditional view of an earth symmetrically flattened at the poles . The dashed line shows the deviation from this pattern detected by studying the orbit of ...
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