although a contemporary of hipparchus', seleucus of seleucia , remained a proponent of the heliocentric model, hipparchus' rejection of heliocentrism, supported by ideas from aristotle, remained dominant for nearly years until copernican heliocentrism turned the tide of the debate. hipparchus's only preserved...
world (although the boole tree , the grove's biggest, was spared). [ ] : – the general grant tree was discovered by joseph h. thomas, a sawmill operator, in . thomas' business partners, the gamlin brothers, held a claim to the land surrounding grant grove, and their dwelling (built around ) has been preserved...
kyoto day cycle to nara miles / km after leaving the bustle of kyoto, a riverside ride leads through forests, corn crops and tea plantations as you pedal south, to the city of nara. surrounded by rolling hills, nara is regarded as the birthplace of japanese civilisation and boasts magnificently preserved...
japanese and chinese. to the pythagoreans the most sacred of all numbers was the , the symbol of which is an x, or cross. in both the japanese and chinese languages the character of the number is a cross. the buddhist wheel of life is composed of two crosses superimposed, and its eight points are still preserved...
is the eternal search for truth, and albert g. mackey sees in it a variation of the masonic legend of the lost word so long sought by the brethren of the craft. there is also evidence to support the claim that the story of the grail is an elaboration of an early pagan nature myth which has been preserved...
(see ancient freemasonry, by frank c. higgins, °.) the same author adds that the name of pythagoras is still preserved in the records of the brahmins as yavancharya, the ionian teacher. pythagoras was said to have been the first man to call himself a philosopher; in fact, the world is indebted to him...