The Poetical Works of John MiltonJ. R. Osgood, 1874 |
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... Ptolemaic , or Alphonsine Cosmology , which supposed our Universe to consist of a succession of spheres of space wheeling with various motions round our Earth as their stationary centre . See a detailed explanation of this Ptolemaic ...
... Ptolemaic , or Alphonsine Cosmology , which supposed our Universe to consist of a succession of spheres of space wheeling with various motions round our Earth as their stationary centre . See a detailed explanation of this Ptolemaic ...
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... Ptolemaic astronomy , that this Ninth Sphere must be the place of those " waters above the firmament " which God on the second day of creation ( Gen. i . 6 , 7 ) had divided from the " waters under the firmament ; " nay , finally , they ...
... Ptolemaic astronomy , that this Ninth Sphere must be the place of those " waters above the firmament " which God on the second day of creation ( Gen. i . 6 , 7 ) had divided from the " waters under the firmament ; " nay , finally , they ...
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... Ptolemaic for the Copernican astronomy , for according to the former they were all fixed in the face of one sphere , so that he could not well be said to wind his way among them . " But in the Ptolemaic system , or at least in the later ...
... Ptolemaic for the Copernican astronomy , for according to the former they were all fixed in the face of one sphere , so that he could not well be said to wind his way among them . " But in the Ptolemaic system , or at least in the later ...
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... Ptolemaic sense the fourth of the Spheres round the Earth . 50. " sdained " : the Italian form ( sdegnare ) of our word “ to disdain , " used also by Spenser and others . 79. " O , then , at last relent , " & c . Some suppose this ...
... Ptolemaic sense the fourth of the Spheres round the Earth . 50. " sdained " : the Italian form ( sdegnare ) of our word “ to disdain , " used also by Spenser and others . 79. " O , then , at last relent , " & c . Some suppose this ...
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... Ptolemaic system of astronomy that he follows in the scheme of the Universe assumed in his poem . According to this system , the setting of the Sun in the west would be caused by the revolution westward of the Prime Orb , or Primum ...
... Ptolemaic system of astronomy that he follows in the scheme of the Universe assumed in his poem . According to this system , the setting of the Sun in the west would be caused by the revolution westward of the Prime Orb , or Primum ...
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