Article 1 of 7 in the series In Wisdom He Made Them All
History | by Kevin McDermott | Volume 14, Issue 1 | January – February 2008
Early Christian writers (Augustine, Origen) made it a matter of Biblical faith to believe that celestial objects (eg moon, stars, etc) were perfect in form. However, this was just an artefact of the poor resolution of existing instruments. Ptolemy constructed a multi-layered model of the celestial u...
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