...North. We recommend all manner of persons to dismiss from their minds all considerations of sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle ; orb in orb ; And be warned by Adam's advice and our own to know, That which before them on the table lies, 1 Is...

...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. — viii. 70. Had it not been for his enthralment to the letter of Scripture, in all probability Milton,...

...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." The same complex system, when explained to Alphonso, king of Castile, gave rise to his noted remark,...

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...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...

...its object, and fresh joints and rods had to be imagined, till, as Milton says, the sphere was — " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb;" and a result arrived at, so complicated, and tangled, and unlike the noble simplicity of the Creator's...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...