This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 39070 | But the question may be asked: is it true that science contradicts itself in this way? |
| 39070 | It may be asked: how and where shall we however find this_ original type_? |
| 35744 | [ 8] But if the heavens were solid, how could the brief presence of a comet be explained? 35744 ( FEBRUARY, 1619)(_ Thomæ Fieni Epistolica Quæstio_: An verum sit, coelum moveri et terram quiescere? 35744 ), as Diogenes Laërtius claims,[5] a long line of Greek thinkers including Plato( 428?-347? 35744 19( Dedication 1604, Louvain),( IV, 947);Vides deliria, quomodo aliter appellent?"] |
| 35744 | : What are these absurdities? |
| 35744 | : What arguments do they rely on who hold that the earth is revolved and that the sun forsooth is still? |
| 35744 | And who knoweth whether a hundred yeares hence a third opinion will arise which happily shall overthrow these two præcedent?" |
| 35744 | Beginning with the followers of Thales or perhaps Parmenides(?-500 B.C. |
| 35744 | But why such diversity? |
| 35744 | By what arguments then can it be proved there are ten spheres? |
| 35744 | Can not wicked angels be defined without privation since they are corporeal essences? |
| 35744 | Does it not also concern Physics to discuss those things that lie outside the universe? |
| 35744 | Ejusdem Thomæ Fieni Epistolica quæstio, An Verum sit Coelum moveri, et Terram quiescere?_ London, 1655. |
| 35744 | Everything loose on the earth seeks its rest on the earth, why should not the whole earth itself be at rest? |
| 35744 | FINIS APPENDIX D. A TRANSLATION OF A LETTER BY THOMAS FEYENS ON THE QUESTION: IS IT TRUE THAT THE HEAVENS ARE MOVED AND THE EARTH IS AT REST? |
| 35744 | For what should move the earth? |
| 35744 | He and at least one of the members of his school, Eudoxus( 409?-356? |
| 35744 | How could that be explained if the sun were stationary? |
| 35744 | How many spheres are there? |
| 35744 | How widespread among the people generally did this theory become in the years immediately following the publication of the_ De Revolutionibus_? |
| 35744 | Is it possible that after a lapse of time as considerable as this, we have nothing more than a rumor of such an event? |
| 35744 | Is there some medium between God and the angels which shares in the nature of both? |
| 35744 | Montaigne[198] was characteristically indifferent:"What shall we reape by it, but only that we neede not care which of the two it be? |
| 35744 | Nor is it moved by another body; for by what is it moved? |
| 35744 | That they have been condemned a year or two ago by our Holy Father, Pope Paul V? |
| 35744 | What do you call fixed stars? |
| 35744 | What should one do with such a variety of opinions? |
| 35744 | What then in corporeal nature is closest to God? |
| 35744 | What then? |
| 35744 | What was the state of astronomy in the century of Copernicus''s birth? |
| 35744 | Why is the one less noble than the other? |
| 35744 | Why so? |
| 35744 | Why then are not eleven spheres counted? |
| 35744 | Why then was the heliocentric theory not definitely accepted? |
| 35744 | [ 4] According to Plutarch, though Thales( 640?-546? |
| 35744 | and later the Stoics believed the earth to be spherical in form, Anaximander( 610- 546? |
| 35744 | of Interpretation_: Preface, xviii:"Who,"asks Calvin,"will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?"] |
| 56302 | And void? |
| 56302 | Created? |
| 56302 | Darkness was upon the face of the deep? |
| 56302 | The heaven? |
| 56302 | Without form? |
| 56302 | And how explain the entire absence of free hydrogen gas from our own atmosphere and its replacement by oxygen? |
| 56302 | But can we not go back one step farther still in the progressive stages of creative energy? |
| 56302 | But is there such an available force? |
| 56302 | But what of the vast total, of which we consume so minute a fraction? |
| 56302 | Can we indicate any relationship of periodicity for the genesis of solar systems from space? |
| 56302 | Does it mean the beginning of our own solar system? |
| 56302 | Has it, indeed, come to this, that the last word which science has to offer is,"After us the deluge"? |
| 56302 | Have the fixed stars planetary systems like our own, or not? |
| 56302 | How could the heaven and earth be void after they had been brought into existence? |
| 56302 | How now shall we explain these periodical aberrations of energy? |
| 56302 | How was the belt of asteroids formed between Mars and Jupiter? |
| 56302 | If all space is meant, where was its outside, or its face? |
| 56302 | If it was empty, what was it that was empty? |
| 56302 | If the earth was a physical structure it must have had some form; what was it? |
| 56302 | If the former, was it a faith which could only have come from the experience of after- ages? |
| 56302 | If the latter, did all other systems of space wait for their light on ours? |
| 56302 | In the"beginning"of what? |
| 56302 | Is all the rest wasted? |
| 56302 | Is it Jehovah, or Aleim, or some other God not yet mentioned or described? |
| 56302 | Is space, then, eternal, and is this constant round of energies to be eternal? |
| 56302 | Is the record anonymous or does it reveal the name of its author? |
| 56302 | Must they have such, or merely may they have? |
| 56302 | Now, whence comes this aqueous vapor surrounding all the planets? |
| 56302 | The author refers constantly to our bodies; for example,"Could we live on a planet like Neptune?" |
| 56302 | Was it a physical creation by an inconceivable action of mere thought, or will? |
| 56302 | Was it that to which the virtuous are supposed to go after death? |
| 56302 | Was it the sea not yet created? |
| 56302 | Was the creating a creation out of nothing? |
| 56302 | Was the creation a direct or an indirect one? |
| 56302 | Was the earth void like a soap- bubble? |
| 56302 | Was the earth without any form at all? |
| 56302 | Was the heaven one of these which He created, or did He create all the different heavens of all the solar systems and nebulæ at the same time? |
| 56302 | Were these statements to be accepted by faith or reason? |
| 56302 | What deep? |
| 56302 | What heaven? |
| 56302 | What is meant by this word? |
| 56302 | What is the basic principle on which depends the ratio of mean planetary distances, 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, etc., always plus 4? |
| 56302 | What is the origin of the planetary satellites and the cause of their irregular distribution, and what the origin of Saturn''s rings? |
| 56302 | What is the rational interpretation and what the origin of the sun''s corona and the cause of the coronal streamers? |
| 56302 | What is the ultimate constitution of interstellar space? |
| 56302 | What they are now who can tell?" |
| 56302 | What was the basis of faith when the record was first written? |
| 56302 | What was this life fashioned out of? |
| 56302 | What"God"is meant? |
| 56302 | What, then, becomes of the light and heat flashed forth with eternal energy from the fiery waves of the sun''s incandescent atmosphere? |
| 56302 | What, then, is the probable cause of these terrific conflagrations, as they appear to us? |
| 56302 | Whence came these powerful agencies by means of which all those distant regions became peopled with suns and worlds? |
| 56302 | Whence comes this enormous mass of hydrogen? |
| 56302 | Whence, then, came this bright light? |
| 56302 | Why is the mass of Neptune out of its proper proportion compared with those of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in a diminishing series? |
| 56302 | Why is the orbit of Neptune relatively compressed against that of Uranus? |
| 56302 | Why, then, it may be asked, is not this line of eruption continuous entirely around the sun? |
| 56302 | Would not the zodiacal light also find explanation by slow electric discharges backward from the dust towards the sun?" |
| 56302 | and did the latter originate spontaneously, or otherwise? |
| 56302 | and if so, was this thought, or will, God himself, or one of his attributes or powers only? |
| 56302 | and what occupied the intervening regions? |
| 56302 | are there no new systems now forming, and none to be formed hereafter? |
| 56302 | by the use of the forces of nature, or by overriding the forces of nature? |
| 56302 | or a vacuum? |
| 56302 | or all space? |
| 56302 | or did we wait on theirs? |
| 56302 | or merely without its present form? |
| 56302 | or of Jehovah( for He has not yet been mentioned or described)? |
| 56302 | or of all space? |
| 56302 | or of all systems? |
| 56302 | or of the Aleim themselves,--that is, did the work begin as soon as the forces began? |
| 56302 | or something coexisting elsewhere? |
| 56302 | or the earth, which is anything but a"deep"? |
| 56302 | or void like a ray of light? |
| 56302 | or was it based on the ipse dixit of Moses? |
| 56302 | or was it some more physical heaven? |
| 56302 | or without some particular form not mentioned? |
| 56302 | out of something pre- existing? |
| 56302 | was it a physical face or the face of a vacuum? |
| 56302 | was it from generally accepted tradition or by revelation? |
| 56302 | was it the atmosphere? |