...will yield 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. By now we are familiar with accepting accounts of science as hypotheses. It is a less familiar, and...

...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. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet, the angel Raphael, in Paradise Lost, bk. 8, I. 72-84(1667)....

...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. It is the hallmark of science to create models to explain observations. It is equally important to...

...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. 39. Perhaps Dante, in having Bernard as his last guide, was in a way suggesting that only the mystic...

...concentrick, while Comets move all manner of ways in Orbs very excentrick. Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. John Milton, Paradise Lost Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens, Pichvick Papers So would I bridle...

...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. — John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667. i. What this chapter covers The event-generating and sound-generating...