A Short History Of the World — H G Wells

THE story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation Over a large part of the civilized world it was believed and taught that world had been created suddenly in 4004 B C though authorities differed as to whether this had occurred in the spring or autumn of that year This Book fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers and it is universally recognized that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time Of course there may be deception in these appearances as a room may be made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end

The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation Over a large part of the civilized world it was believed and taught that the world had been created suddenly in 4004 B C though authorities differed as to whether this had occurred in the spring or autumn of that year This fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers and it is universally recognized that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time Of course there may be deception in these appearances as a room may be made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end But that the universe in which we live has existed only for six or seven thousand years may be regarded as an altogether exploded idea The earth as everybody knows nowadays is a spheroid a sphere slightly compressed orange fashion with a diameter of nearly 8 000 miles Its spherical shape has been known at least to a limited number of intelligent people for nearly 2 500 years but before that time it was supposed to be flat and various ideas which now seem fantastic were entertained about its relations to the sky and the stars and planets We know now that it rotates upon its 2 axis which is about 24 miles shorter than its equatorial diameter every twenty four hours and that this is the cause of the alternations of day and night that it circles about the sun in a slightly distorted and slowly variable oval path in a year Its distance from the sun varies between ninety one and a half millions at its nearest and ninety four and a half million miles Tanıtım Bülteninden

The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation Over a large part of the civilized world it was believed and taught that the world had been created suddenly in 4004 B C though authorities differed as to whether this had occurred in the spring or autumn of that year This fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers and it is universally recognized that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time Of course there may be deception in these appearances as a room may be made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end But that the universe in which we live has existed only for six or seven thousand years may be regarded as an altogether exploded idea The earth as everybody knows nowadays is a spheroid a sphere slightly compressed orange fashion with a diameter of nearly 8 000 miles Its spherical shape has been known at least to a limited number of intelligent people for nearly 2 500 years but before that time it was supposed to be flat and various ideas which now seem fantastic were entertained about its relations to the sky and the stars and planets We know now that it rotates upon its 2 axis which is about 24 miles shorter than its equatorial diameter every twenty four hours and that this is the cause of the alternations of day and night that it circles about the sun in a slightly distorted and slowly variable oval path in a year Its distance from the sun varies between ninety one and a half millions at its nearest and ninety four and a half million miles img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img

The story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation Over a large part of the civilized world it was believed and taught that the world had been created suddenly in 4004 B C though authorities differed as to whether this had occurred in the spring or autumn of that year This fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers and it is universally recognized that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time Of course there may be deception in these appearances as a room may be made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end But that the universe in which we live has existed only for six or seven thousand years may be regarded as an altogether exploded idea The earth as everybody knows nowadays is a spheroid a sphere slightly compressed orange fashion with a diameter of nearly 8 000 miles Its spherical shape has been known at least to a limited number of intelligent people for nearly 2 500 years but before that time it was supposed to be flat and various ideas which now seem fantastic were entertained about its relations to the sky and the stars and planets We know now that it rotates upon its 2 axis which is about 24 miles shorter than its equatorial diameter every twenty four hours and that this is the cause of the alternations of day and night that it circles about the sun in a slightly distorted and slowly variable oval path in a year Its distance from the sun varies between ninety one and a half millions at its nearest and ninety four and a half million miles