Categories: Alternative conceptions
An example of a historical idea that would now be considered an alternative conception,
"As the earth turns round each point of her superficies describes a Circle in the contiguous aether…"
John Flamsteed (1975) Lecture 13, 4 May 1682, in The Gresham Lectures of John Flamsteed (Editor: Eric G. Forbes), London: Mansell Information Publishing Ltd.