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Single Idea 7489

[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology ]

Full Idea

Then Joshua spake to the Lord, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and the Sun stood still.

Gist of Idea

Joshua said, Sun, stand thou still

Source

Anon (Josh) (06: Book of Joshua [c.540 BCE], 10.12)

Book Ref

'The Bible', ed/tr. the Church [Collins 1950], p.119

A Reaction

This verse became highly significant during the controversies from Copernicus to Galileo about the heliocentric universe.

The 16 ideas with the same theme [origins and nature of the universe]:

7608 The world is established, and cannot be moved [Isaiah]
7489 Joshua said, Sun, stand thou still [Anon (Josh)]
1791 He was the first person to say the earth is spherical [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
1794 He was the first to discover the identity of the Morning and Evening Stars [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
1787 Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius]
20911 There are unlimited worlds of varying sizes, some without life or water [Democritus, by Hippolytus]
369 If the Earth is spherical and in the centre, it is kept in place by universal symmetry, not by force [Plato]
309 Clearly the world is good, so its maker must have been concerned with the eternal, not with change [Plato]
402 The Earth must be spherical, because it casts a convex shadow on the moon [Aristotle]
403 The earth must be round and of limited size, because moving north or south makes different stars visible [Aristotle]
14051 A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]
20811 Since the cosmos produces what is alive and rational, it too must be alive and rational [Zeno of Citium]
2648 Things are more perfect if they have reason; nothing is more perfect than the universe, so it must have reason [Zeno of Citium]
5715 This earth is very unlikely to be the only one created [Lucretius]
14169 The 'universe' can mean what exists now, what always has or will exist [Russell]
5994 Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]