Whereas the proper object of the human intellect, which is united to a body, is a quiddity or nature existing in corporeal matter; and through such natures of visible things it rises to a certain knowledge of things invisible.
Now the nature of man requires that he be led to the invisible by visible things, as explained above (Q.
But nevertheless it may be highly agreeable to the eye that A, B, and C, if visible things, should have visible connection of ratio, even though nothing be accomplished by such connection.
Yet these Ideas, so far as they were the Intelligible Forms of Visible Things, were really fit objects of philosophical research; and the search after them had a powerful influence in promoting the progress of Science.
Mathematics, he adds, treats of the invisible forms of visible things.
We must treat Astronomy, like Geometry, as a series of problems suggested by visible things.
But when Plato says that astronomy is a series of problems suggested by visible things, he uses expressions quite conformable to the true philosophy of science; and the like is true of all other sciences.
The first part of philosophia theorica is mathematics, which speculates as to the visible forms of visible things.
The second is physics, which scrutinizes the invisible causes of visible things.
Through the visible forms of visible things, it comes to invisible causes of visible things; and through the invisible causes of visible things, it ascends to invisible substances, and to knowing their natures.
This is also called the grandid, because it is like a hailstone; and it is somewhat hard and round, but flattened anteriorly where it receives the images of visible things, and posteriorly pyramidal shape and pointed.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "visible things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
