Sentence examples for heavens motion from inspiring English sources

Now, continued Averroes, if time were uniquely associated with this and only this motion, then one's sensing and being aware of time would be associated with one's sensing and being aware of the heavens' motion.

According to Simplicius, Peripatetic interpreters, including Alexander of Aphrodisias, accepted that God was a final cause of the entire world, that God's moving the heavens made him indirectly the efficient cause of sublunar motion, and that he was also the efficient cause of the heavens' motion, but not of their existence as a substance (in Cael. 271,13 21; in Phys. 1360,24 1363,24).

It speaks of such things as the "Way of Heaven," motion, spiritual beings, and religious sacrifices.

Our undergoing change, however, Averroes quickly added, only results from the heavens' undergoing motion, and should per impossibile the heavens cease moving, then we would no longer undergo change.

"That God could not move the heavens with rectilinear motion; and the reason is that a vacuum would remain".

Artists like Nancy Holt and Charles Ross created work aligned to the heavens, to the motion of the stars and sun, seeking to connect to something larger than avant-garde movements, planetary motion as their guiding principle.

For they change their position one to another (which never happens to bodies truely at rest), and being carried together with their heavens, partake of their motions, and as parts of revolving wholes, endeavor to recede from the axis of their motions.

But nothing which concerns the eternal can be a matter of chance or spontaneity, and the heaven and its circular motion are eternal.

In German, it's time to Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen — put heaven and hell in motion.

Leaning out into the traffic, he said, "Now I am going to switch from the sublime motion of the heavens to the mundane motion of the cars" — and gave a little talk, his voice occasionally cracking, on the timing patterns of the city's thousands of stoplights.

The second tenet was that all motion in the heavens was uniform and circular.