Sentence examples for earthly objects from inspiring English sources

Aristotle also believed that massive earthly objects possess a natural tendency to move toward Earth's centre.

Plato talked a lot about the abstract world of forms and used earthly objects as metaphors for extra-material truths.

During this same period the Italian astronomer and natural philosopher Galileo Galilei made progress in understanding "natural" motion and simple accelerated motion for earthly objects.

Their idea is that children use green to represent earthly objects such as the ground, and use yellow to represent supernatural objects like gods.

It's as though the ordinary earthly objects, we bump into them or they bump into us, and they get us to look upwards to the heavenly Platonic realm.

Their conclusions were that (1) 90percentt of the sightings could be easily attributed to astronomical and meteorologic phenomena (e.g., bright planets and stars, meteors, auroras, ion clouds) or to such earthly objects as aircraft, balloons, birds, and searchlights, (2) there was no obvious security threat, and (3) there was no evidence to support the ETH.

Reason allowed the mind to understand the beauty of an earthly object in relation to a pre-existing ideal beauty.

Of course, we can be sure that certain objects of earthly origin are now on Mars, because we shot them there — including the aforementioned Viking, the Mars Pathfinder in 1997, and in 2006 the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Of course, we can be sure that certain objects of earthly origin are now on Mars, because we shot them there including the aforementioned Viking, the Mars Pathfinder in 1997, and in 2006 the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

The Manatee Nebula, which lies 18,000 light-years away in the constellation of Aquila, isn't the only celestial object named after an Earthly creature: It is joined in the cosmos by the Crab Nebula, the Eagle Nebula, and the Pelican Nebula, among others.

Predictive methods of fortune-telling include astrology (interpretation of the movements of heavenly bodies as influences on earthly events), numerology, and the utilization of objects such as playing cards, tea leaves, crystal balls, dice, fire, water, and scattered salt.