Sentence examples for ancient sphere from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the Gullwings discover an ancient sphere containing images of an enormous machina weapon called "Vegnagun" that was secretly buried beneath Bevelle.

However, it is important to bear in mind that justice is only one of a number of virtues prized by the ancients, and so only one part of what, in the ancient tradition, constitutes the sphere of the moral or ethical.

In the absence of spore formation, it is tempting to assume that the spheres in ancient fluid inclusions represent a form of haloarchaeal resting state.

The armillary sphere was known in ancient China; the ancient Greeks were also familiar with it and modified it to produce the astrolabe, which could tell the time or length of day or night as well as measure solar and lunar altitudes.

"There's no scaffolding in the sky!" Sagredo exclaims, peering through the telescope, as the crystal spheres of the ancient Greeks shatter before his eyes.

Finally, we reach the heart of this universe, contained in a metaphor that stretches from the ancient Pythagorean music of the spheres to the modern and "riotous fulmination of subatomic particles".

The presence of viable particles of similar sizes in ancient fluid inclusions suggested that spheres might represent dormant states of haloarchaea.

Most traditional views of ancient history focus on the Graeco-Roman sphere; a main course of Pliny or Livy, perhaps, with a side order of Herodotus or Socrates.

Celestial Music Ever since ancient scholars imagined "the music of the spheres," people have been wondering what sounds might exist in outer space.

All those philosophers and scientists and theoreticians and composers who believed in the ancient notion of a Music of the Spheres were onto something.

Ancient astronomers found the notion of celestial spheres useful (even essential) to the conduct of their discipline, but now we know that there are no celestial spheres.