 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 - Página 14por Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 571 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1857 - 588 páginas
...their positions with those which resulted from the Ptolemaic theory, which showed — " The sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb ;" computed their distances, motions, and relations, in the hope of reconciling the complexity of the... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 páginas
...the truth, so far as determining their relative position was concerned. These, girding "The sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb," 1 • may now be swept away — the absolute truth, however, which they embodied being imperishable,... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 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. Atready by thy reasoning this I guess, T. 11. 34 « concentriques et excentriques, de cycles et d'épicycles,... | |
 | George Brewster - 1858 - 464 páginas
...with its complexity, for by it the heavens had rapidly become with " Centric and eccentric scrubbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb—" crossing and penetrating each other in every direction — he takes up the hypothesis, that the sun constitutes the center of the planetary system, and with... | |
 | Henry Lawes Long - 1859 - 298 páginas
...Pythagoras, was debased into confusion and worthlessness by Ptolemy and his disciples, " Who gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb ! " Mr. G rote (ip 334-8) alludes to the transposition of 1 Strabo x. " Hic (Strabo) quicquid geographicse... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 366 páginas
...will wield BO 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... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1863 - 434 páginas
...system, — the earth being the centre of the solar system, and the starry heavens, in Milton's phrase, " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." The mwal argument for the Divine Existence is found in its simplest form, in the very earliest periods... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 458 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. Milton might indeed appeal to certain passages in the Old... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
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