Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pythagorean System

Pythagoras taught that the sun is a movable sphere in the centre of the universe, and that all the planets revolve round it. This is substantially the same as the Copernican and Newtonian systems.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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