Human Beings Literally Lost the Ground of Their View

There are people who regard the deed of Copernicus as the biggest of the cultural revolutions which humanity has ever experienced as far as the historical memory reaches. One has to admit that the impression and the influence of this...

To Remove Man From the Centre of Things Was To Raise Him From His Low Estate

And the one change of this kind implied by the abandonment of the geocentric system was, as is evident from what has already been said, the reverse of that often attributed to the new astronomy; to remove man from the...

Source: The Great Chain of Being  by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

A Radical Change to Astronomy and Cosmology

The years when Jesuits established their first schools coincided with the beginning of the so-called scientific revolution and the origin of modern science. In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus had published his book, De revolutionibus orbium celestium, in which he proposed the...

Source: Jesuit Contribution to Science  by Agustín Udías

He Believed That the Moon and Stars Were Nothing More than Holes in the Firmament

Anaximander of Miletus argued that the Sun was a hole in a fire-filled ring that encircled the Earth and revolved around it. Similarly, he believed that the Moon and stars were nothing more than holes in the firmament, revealing otherwise...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

The Universe Could Be Understood and Is Worthy of Analytical Study

The word ‘cosmology’ is derived from the ancient Greek word kosmeo, which means ‘to order’ or ‘to organise’, reflecting the belief that the universe could be understood and is worthy of analytical study. The cosmos had patterns, and it was...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

It Just Seemed So Utterly Obvious That the Sun Revolved Round a Static Earth

Egocentric attitudes may have been a contributory factor behind the dominance of the geocentric world-view, but there were other reasons for preferring an Earth-centred universe to Aristarchus’ Sun-centred universe. One basic problem with the Sun-centred world-view was that it appeared...

Source: Big Bang  by Simon Singh

Not upon Any Theory or Abstract Model of the Universe

It is evident that Teilhard does not resonate to the biblical world-view. Not only does he find it staticist and narrow, but he thinks that it is based upon "the Alexandrine" cosmology (whatever that might be). What Teilhard fails to...

Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion  by Wolfgang Smith

Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell

The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...

Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God  by David Fideler

We Are Using Philosophical Criteria in Choosing Our Models

"People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations," Ellis argues. "For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based...

They Had to Imagine the Sun as Something That Does Not Move

They had to imagine the sun as something that does not move in relation to the earth and the earth even as something moving.

Four Great Problems

Four great problems that men at all times have had to face need new interpretation, in his opinion. These are: 1. How the universe arose or was created, how it operates, who or what makes things happen and why. 2....