FABRI DE PEIRESC'S QUEST FOR A METHOD TO CALCULATE TERRESTRIAL LONGITUDE.
From: The Historian
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Date: 6/22/1999
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Author: TOLBERT, JANE T.
The Roman Catholic Church of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries found itself beset by controversy on many fronts. The Protestant Reformation proved a serious threat to Church doctrine while the emerging scientific community challenged many of the Church's fundamental assumptions about humans, God, and the world. Basing its beliefs in the theories of Aristotle that the Earth was the pivot of the world around which the sun and all other heavenly bodies rotated, and the ...
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