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Example sentences for "primum mobile"

  • Primum Mobile in which they are contained.

  • Up, presently, to the Primum Mobile, and the Trepidation of the Firmament!

  • The equinoctial was supposed to revolve, because it was the 'girdle' of the primum mobile, and turned with it.

  • This primum mobile (usually considered as the ninth sphere) causes the rotation of the eighth sphere, or sphaera stellarum fixarum.

  • It shares its unwearying nature, for the time that life lasts, with the heart, that primum mobile of the organism, which has therefore become its symbol and synonym.

  • To believe that knowledge really and fundamentally determines the will is like believing that the lantern which a man carries by night is the primum mobile of his steps.

  • This was believed to turn all the others, and was called the primum mobile.

  • That is the reason why both ancient and modern mathematicians, aside from the motion of the primum mobile, were forced to admit and consider the peculiar movements of the planets themselves.

  • Below that, was the Primum mobile, the greatest body in the heavens, as Dante calls it, because it surrounds all the rest of the circle, and bounds the material world.

  • They are called intelligences or angels; and the primum mobile as well as the heaven of fixed stars is held in motion by them.

  • Next in order below the Empyrean is the heaven of crystal, or the sphere of the first movable (primum mobile).

  • The primum mobile is hatred of the church.

  • In mediaeval astronomy it came to be known as the primum mobile or "first movable," while a tenth and motionless sphere was added as the abode of God and redeemed souls.

  • In the Tale of the Man of Lawe the primum mobile is described as crowding and hurling in diurnal revolution from east to west all the spheres that would naturally follow the slow course of the zodiac from west to east.

  • As conceived by astronomers the aequinoctial circle is equidistant from both poles, cutting the world in the middle, measures the motions of their primum mobile or tenth sphere, and is named the zone of the primum mobile.

  • On the magnetick diurnal revolution of the Earth's globe, as a probable assertion against the time-honoured opinion of a Primum Mobile.

  • I mentally exclaimed; "I have found the primum mobile of the circulation of the blood.

  • This vivisection clearly proved that the primum mobile of the circulation, and the chief motive powers of the blood, are in the lungs, and not in the heart.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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