Sentences with phrase «heavenly sphere»

De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres) by Nicolaus Copernicus (1543)

Yet both pointed forms aim in the same direction, to the same heavenly sphere that justifies the existence of both.

A display which will include objects and rare books across five centuries from Nicolaus Copernicus» revolutionary work on the movement of the planets On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, of 1543 to Katie Paterson's recent work Timepieces.

The God revealed in Jesus is far more like the gracious Love described by Whitehead than the omnipotent ruler located in a heavenly sphere that so many suppose is the Christian God.

The heavenly sphere of theology must blend with the worldly sphere of the, civil.

Some rejected it altogether, some looked for the resurrection of the few, some looked for the resurrection of all, some saw it in spiritual terms, some in physical terms, some saw it as taking place on earth, some referred it to Sheol, some pictured it in a heavenly sphere.

This Journey is no longer the journey of Dante through the heavenly spheres.

The idea of a physical body from this earth being raised to the heavenly sphere above did not appear impossible, even if it rarely happened.

Compare that to the argument used by Copernicus in his book from 1543, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres:

In The Sleepwalkers, published in 1959, Arthur Koestler claimed that none of Nicolaus Copernicus's contemporaries had actually read his 1543 masterpiece De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), which posited that Earth and the planets orbit the sun.

In the Greek conception, the flawed earthly laws and elements are distinct from those of the heavenly spheres, which follow perfectly circular motion and consist of aether — the perfect «fifth element.»

Over the years, these visitations have consolidated into a portrait of my Einstein — or, more precisely, my three Einsteins, related but distinct aspects of the man, which I envision nested inside one another like Aristotle's heavenly spheres.

After presenting his heliocentric hypothesis in a 1514 letter to intellectual colleagues, he resisted publishing the manuscript for On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres for decades, fearing that his work would lead to professional ridicule and «controversy» among the masses.

As Nevelson once said, in her art she searched for «the in - between places, the dawns and dusk, the objective world, the heavenly spheres, the places between the land and the sea.»