"sphere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ptolemy assigned the following order to the planetary spheres, beginning with the innermost:
- These days the planetary spheres of influence overlapped in the Belt with uneasy tolerance.
- The seven planetary spheres or heavens were for the ancients the highest regions of the created universe.
- When scholars applied Ptolemy's epicycles, they presumed that each planetary sphere was exactly thick enough to accommodate them.
- In more detailed models the seven planetary spheres contained other secondary spheres within them.
- The ancient astronomy taught that above the seven planetary spheres was an eighth, the sphere of the fixed stars.
- They then descend, one by one, through the planetary spheres.
- Anderson must also have been aware of the doctrine that the seven planetary spheres, with their different tones, produce a celestial music.
- The dot representing the hurtling iceberg still moved very fast, though, and the planetary sphere had to shrink in compensation.
- In the natural music of our orbiting planetary sphere, they are pure dissonance.
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