Topic: “Globe”

💬 Quote Library — containing “Globe”

The Curve? I’ve Not Seen That Yet

The Curve? I've not seen that yet.

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It Is Probably a Sphere

Before any celestial distances or sizes could be calculated, the ancient Greeks first had to establish that the Earth is a sphere. This view gained acceptance in ancient Greece as philosophers became familiar with the notion that ships gradually disappear...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

Earth Had to Be a Sphere

It is not so much that certain educated men had not already theorized that Earth was round, but that with the return of the first ship Victoria the expedition’s wealthy financial backers had visual evidence that ships could circumnavigate the...

Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty

All of a Sudden, Proved to Be a Sphere

The first of these schemes derives from the fact that the generally accepted "flat earth" was, all of a sudden, proved to be a sphere by the voyage of Magellan's ships around the world.

Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty

No Reason Why This Old Philosophy Should Be Longer Concealed

Underlying this Secret Doctrine was a profound philosophy of the creation or evolution of worlds and of man. The present humanity, in many quarters of the globe, has evolved on the intellectual plane so far that there now exist a...

Source: Mystic Masonry by Jirah Dewey Buck

Rolling Round the Central Sun

In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...

Source: On the Origin of Free-Masonry by Thomas Paine

Being a Sphere, It Therefore Had to Be a Finite Object

Being a sphere, it therefore had to be a finite object, with a finite—that is, limited—surface area. With this awakening the ideas of world trade and related colonial proprietary rights were born.

Source: JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty