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" Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird... "
Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler - Página 13
por Lives - 1833
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The Southern Review, Volumen5

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 páginas
...puzzle, and the scheme of the universe an enigma, as profound and dark as the riddle of the Sphinx. With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. The beautiful heavens racked the brain of man, and continually solicited his exertions to bring order...
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The Elements of Astronomy: For Colleges, Schools, and Private Students ...

Selim Hobart Peabody - 1869 - 388 páginas
...opinion was generally adopted by philosophers, and Milton refers to it when he speaks of the heavens as "With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." Fig. 83. The figure shows the supposed path of Mars from 1708 to 1723. The earth is supposed to be...
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Our Oriental Missions. ...

Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 páginas
...they wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb ;" yet every progress of thought "making confusion worse confounded." Indian idolatry has touched bottom....
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The Divine Comedy, Volumen3

Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 páginas
...will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." See also Nichol, Solar System, p. 7 : " Nothing in later times ought to obscure the glory of Hipparchus,...
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The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W ..., Tema 322

John Milton - 1871 - 530 páginas
...will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author; Preliminary ...

John Milton - 1873 - 678 páginas
...will wield ^ The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o/er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb: Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright...
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The Quarterly journal of prophecy, Volumen25

1873 - 442 páginas
...chronologers and those of the ancient astronomers, as Mikon has drawn them, who " Gird the sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." We do not state these things in order to depreciate the value of chronological studies, nor in order...
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Questions for Examination in English Literature: Chiefly Selected from ...

Walter William Skeat - 1873 - 154 páginas
...they will wield The mighty frame how build unbuild contrive To save appearances how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er Cycle and epicycle orb in orb Already by thy reasoning this I guess Who art to lead thy offspring and supposes! That bodies bright...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ...

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 páginas
...will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.' knew there were no such things ; and, in like manner, that the Schoolmen had framed a number of subtile...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions ..., Volumen3

John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 páginas
...to, as each new set of appearances presented themselves for explanation. 82—84. " gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb." The fundamental notion of the ancient astronomers was that all the motions of the heavenly bodies were...
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