It frequently happens that men are perfectly correct in their premises
and in observing the facts, while their conclusions may be wholly wrong.
Ptolemy clearly saw that, if the alternation from day to night
is caused by a rotation of the earth, then points on the equator
must move with a speed of nearly one thousand miles an hour, a
velocity exceeding more than tenfold that of the wind in the
severest storm. A terrible gale would thus always blow from the
east; birds in flight and objects thrown into the air would be
left behind and carried with frightful rapidity toward the west.
As these things do not happen, the earth, Ptolemy concludes,
must be at rest.--CHARLES LANE POOR, “The Solar System.”
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=Error Leading to Success=--See EXPERIMENT.
=Eruption of Evil=--See EVIL ERUPTIVE.
=Escape=--See INGENUITY; RESCUE.