Ways in which the Earth moves.
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Examples for "motions of the earth "
1 They had not yet learned to measure the distances of the stars, nor to calculate the motions of the earth .
2 And this confusion also leads people into all sorts of erroneous theories about the position and motions of the earth .
3 Her creed was a habit of the intellect; she held it as she did the knowledge of the motions of the earth .
4 The instruments invented for the recording of the motions of the earth 's crust are looked upon by scientists as the most delicate of all machines.
5 "I feel the motions of the earth as it flies around the sun and turns on itself," she said,-"twodizzinesses in one.
1 The sudden movements of the earth 's crust often threw up extraordinary archaeological finds.
2 Differences were lost in the face of such awesome powers as movements of the earth , and death.
3 The movements of the earth 's crust oscillated at a rate not to exceed one foot in a century.
4 Continued movements of the earth finally folded these rocks, which, as they were, squeezed and broken, became warm.
5 In Part earth, and among whose manifestations are volcanoes and earthquakes and the various movements of the earth 's crust.
1 An earthquake is a movement of the earth 's crust, caused by volcanic action.
2 The movement of the earth on its axis is rotative.
3 Robin stood nervously, feeling the movement of the earth .
4 Perhaps the most familiar example of mistaken sense-reports is that of the movement of the earth .
5 The movement of the earth , for instance, is not, strictly speaking, performed in an elliptical orbit.
1 But it is awkward that Moses does not teach the motion of the earth .
2 No motion is more uniform than the motion of the earth on its axis.
3 Bradley's studies led him to discover also the libratory motion of the earth 's axis.
4 First I found in Cicero that Niceties had believed in the motion of the earth .
5 Among his arguments against the double motion of the earth may be cited the following:
6 I don't believe he knew that, or that he knew the motion of the earth .
7 We know some of the agents-thediurnal motion of the earth , and the sun's heating rays.
8 In fact, the opinion is, that the motion of the earth will not practically have any effect.
9 Tells about investigation of the Mid-Ocean Ridge as the source of wholesale motion of the earth 's crust.
10 How could the theory of the motion of the earth be squared with Christ's ascension into heaven?
11 The motion of the earth being northward, that end of its axis resembled the prow of a ship.
12 If this change of state of the angels is substituted for the motion of the earth , the correspondence is complete.
13 And Didacus, discoursing on the Copernican hypothesis, concludes that the motion of the earth is not contrary to the Scriptures.
14 In reference to the motion of the earth he seeks a middle course between the theories of Copernicus and Tycho Brahé.
15 The rocky shore went by us like a dream; we could feel the motion of the earth whirling around with us.
16 Copernicus showed clearly how this effect was produced by the real motion of the earth , combined with the real motion of Mars.
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