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The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, March 16, 1967—Page 3 revolved around him. Gradually hamlets, towns and cities were formed and man was then con vinced HIS town was the cen ter of the earth and of the Universe. For centuries Rome was the center of the world for millions of people. During the supremacy of Rome, an Egyptian-Greek named Ptolomy propounded a theory that lasted a thousand years. This theory, called the earth-centered or geocentric theory, held that the sun, the planets, and the stars all re volved about the earth. When discrepancies appeared, the proponents of this view mere ly stated that a planet was actually revolving about a cen tral point and this central point in turn was revolving a bout another point which in turn was revolving about the earth. This theory became quite complicated when many additional epicycles had to be postulated for all of the plan ets. No extra cycles were nec essary for the sun and the stars. A great simplification was achieved when Copernicus ad vocated that the sun was the center of the universe and that the earth, stars, and planets all revolved about the earth'. It look two hundred years and bitter controversy and anguish before this sun-centered or heliocentric theory supplanted the old Ptolomaic or geocen tric theory. In 1917, Dr. Shapley found by plotting the positions of many groups of stars called globular clusters that the center of our vast system of one hundred billion suns—our galaxy—is about 180 million billion miles away from our sun. Since this time it has been estimated that a billion other galaxies exist in the universe. There is no indication that our galaxy is the center of this superior metagalaxy. So in the course of a mere one or two hundred thousand years, the speaker said, man’s horizon has expanded from a few miles to one billion light years—the distance light will travel in one billion years if the speed is kept constant at 186 thousand miles per second. FORT MOTTE—Mr and Mrs. Donald Cecil Inabinet of Ft. Motte announce the engage ment of their daughter, Corne lia Faye, and John David Half acre. The bride-groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Walton B. Halfacre of Newberry. Miss Inabinet was graduat ed from Cameron High school and received a Secretarial Sci ence Certificate from the Uni versity of South Carolina. She is employed as a secretary in the Physical Education De partment at the University of South Carolina. Mr. Halfacre was graduated from Newberry High school and was graduated with honors from the Citadel. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the Citadel, and is working toward a doc torate degree in Psychology at the University of South Car olina. The wedding will take place July 1 at Pine Grove Lutheran church, Lone Star. Woman’s Club hears Shapley book discussed The Woman’s Club met on Thursday, March 9 at the home of Mrs. A. G. D. Wiles. Mrs. J. J. Chappell, presi dent, presided. The Club Col lect was read after which a brief business session was held. Mrs. F. Scott Elliott intro duced the speaker for the af ternoon, Prof. Kibler William son, an outstanding member of Newberry College Science De partment and well known to everyone in this community. Prof Williamson presented a most interesting and compre hensive review of the book, “A View' of a Distant Star” by Harlow Shapley. Mr. Williamson commented in his opening remarks that Dr. Shapley, who is one of the ill-time greats in the world of astronomy, lectured last year in Newberry under the sponsorship of the New berry College Arts and Lec ture program. Many chapters of Dr. Shapley’s book are bas ed on lectures and articles written by him over a period of years, but all of the material w'as brought up to date in light of recent scientific dis coveries before the final ver sion was published In Novem ber of 1964. The “View From a Distant Star” begins by sketching the history of man’s changing con cept of the Universe from the time of primitive man to the present. In the beginning of his existence, man thought that he was the center of all creation and that the world Newberry College Theater Presents Thursday, Friday, Saturday March 16, 17, 18 8:15 P. M. No Admission Charge The Little Theatre SAFEGUARDING YOUR SAVINGS... 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