The Poetical Works of John MiltonJ. R. Osgood, 1874 |
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Page 160
... Ptolemaic system in connexion with the scheme of Paradise Lost in the Introd . ( pp . 89-96 ) . Observe how Milton uses the Ptolemaic doctrine in the passage under notice . Satan is on the outside of the Tenth Sphere or Primum Mobile ...
... Ptolemaic system in connexion with the scheme of Paradise Lost in the Introd . ( pp . 89-96 ) . Observe how Milton uses the Ptolemaic doctrine in the passage under notice . Satan is on the outside of the Tenth Sphere or Primum Mobile ...
Page 163
... 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 ...
Page 176
... 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 ...
Page 188
... Ptolemaic system . The orb or sphere of the fixed stars was the eighth from the Earth . 177-201 . " And ye , " & c . See note , antè 160-165 . But in these twenty - five lines the alternation of the spelling between " ye " and " yee ...
... Ptolemaic system . The orb or sphere of the fixed stars was the eighth from the Earth . 177-201 . " And ye , " & c . See note , antè 160-165 . But in these twenty - five lines the alternation of the spelling between " ye " and " yee ...
Page 214
... Ptolemaic system , he supposes the creative work of the second day to have been the establishing of this firmament , and the separation by it of the waters till then diffused throughout the Universe into two great aggregations first ...
... Ptolemaic system , he supposes the creative work of the second day to have been the establishing of this firmament , and the separation by it of the waters till then diffused throughout the Universe into two great aggregations first ...
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