 | John Augustine Zahm - 1910 - 510 strani
...conclusion respecting the shape of the earth, namely: that it is not round, as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where...stalk grows, at which part it is most prominent." It is very easy for us, in the light of all the advance in scientific knowledge since his time, to... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - 1910 - 512 strani
...conclusion respecting the shape of the earth, namely: that it is not round, as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where...stalk grows, at which part it is most prominent." It is very easy for us, in the light of all the advance in scientific knowledge since his time, to... | |
 | Cardinal Leonidas Goodwin - 1922 - 1082 strani
...to another conclusion respecting the earth — namely, that it is not round, as they decribe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round, except where...stalk grows, at which part it is most prominent." This opinion he bases upon the mildness of the climate in the Western Hemisphere near the equinoctial,... | |
 | Jackson Lears - 1995 - 416 strani
...a revealing fantasy. He decided that the earth was not round, as Ptolemy and others had argued, but "the form of a pear, which is very round except where...protrusion being the highest and nearest the sky." The equation of Eden with maternal nurturance was not an idle conceit or a slip of the pen; Columbus... | |
 | William F. Warren - 1996 - 548 strani
...to another conclusion respecting the Earth, namely, that it is not. round as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where...part it is most prominent ; or like a round ball upon part of which is a prominence like a woman's nipple, this protrusion being the highest and nearest... | |
 | George Boas - 1997 - 244 strani
...come to another conclusion respecting the earth, namely, that it is not round as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where...equinoctial line, and at the eastern extremity of the sea. . . . Ptolemy and the others who have written upon the globe, had no information respecting... | |
 | Susan Strasser, Charles McGovern, Matthias Judt - 1998 - 496 strani
...in the vicinity of the Earthly Paradise, the highest point on earth; he concluded that the earth was "the form of a pear, which is very round except where...protrusion being the highest and nearest the sky." Metaphorically at least, the Earthly Paradise was also the nipple of the world. 3 2 This and the following... | |
 | David Brooks - 2004 - 320 strani
...The elevation seemed to grow higher. He concluded that the world was not in fact round, but was in "the form of a pear, which is very round except where...part it is most prominent; or like a round ball, upon which is a prominence like a woman's nipple, this protrusion being the highest and nearest the sky.... | |
 | Jonathan Z. Smith - 2004 - 429 strani
...describe, but is in the form of a pear, which is very round except where the stalk grows, at which point it is most prominent; or like a round ball, upon one part of which is a prominence, like a woman's nipple."8 At the height of this nipple-like protrusion is the spot of the earthly paradise whither... | |
 | Michael Frankel - 2007 - 258 strani
...conclusion respecting the earth, namely that it is not round as they describe, but of the form of a pear ... or like a round ball, upon one part of which is a...nipple, this protrusion being the highest and nearest to the sky, situated under the equinoctial line, and at the eastern extremity of this sea where the... | |
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I have come to another conclusion respecting the Earth, namely, that it is not round as they describe, but of the form of a pear, which is very round except where the stalk grows, at which part it is most prominent... 
