{"product_id":"9781507890936","title":"The System of the World: Observing the Heavens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#FF6600\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe System of the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsaac Newton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe System of the World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont color=\"#FF6600\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserving the Heavens\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the ancient opinion of not a few, in the earliest ages of philosophy, that the fixed stars stood immoveable in the highest parts of the world; that, under the fixed stars the planets were carried about the sun; that the earth, us one of the planets, described an annual course about the sun, while by a diurnal motion it was in the mean time revolved about its own axis; and that the sun, as the common fire which served to warm the whole, was fixed in the centre of the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis was the philosophy taught of old by Philolaus, Aristarchus of Samos, Plato in his riper years, and the whole sect of the Pythagoreans; and this was the judgment of Anaximander, more ancient than any of them; and of that wise king of the Romans, Numa Pompilius, who, as a symbol of the figure of the world with the sun in the centre, erected a temple in honour of Vesta, of a round form, and ordained perpetual fire to be kept in the middle of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Egyptians were early observers of the heavens; and from them, probably, this philosophy was spread abroad among other nations; for from them it was, and the nations about them, that the Greeks, a people of themselves more addicted to the study of philology than of nature, derived their first, as well as soundest, notions of philosophy ; and in the vestal ceremonies we may yet trace the ancient spirit of the Egyptians; for it was their way to deliver their mysteries, that is, their philosophy of things above the vulgar way of thinking, under the veil of religious rites and hieroglyphic symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CreateSpace Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045811011824,"sku":"9781507890936","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781507890936_p0.jpg?v=1763720348","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781507890936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}