Sentence examples for motion of fire from inspiring English sources

Among things ascribed to this supersensible force are movements of needles toward a magnet, circulation of water in plant bodies, upward motion of fire, movement of mind, and movements of soul after death.

But the fact that the term 'potentially' is used in more than one sense is the reason why it is not evident whence such motions as the upward motion of fire and the downward motion of earth are derived.

And the motion of things that derive their motion from something else is in some cases natural, in other unnatural: e.g. upward motion of earthy things and downward motion of fire are unnatural.

John Philoponus (490 570) considered that the heavens were made of fire, not of aether, yet maintained that circular motion is one of the two natural motions of fire.

Based in Bristol, the European Green Capital of 2015, Spark Fire Dance have just released an incendiary slow-motion video of fire dancing.

Ventilation and extraction systems have to be designed with accuracy in order to control the longitudinal motion of the fire-induced smoke and to extract it efficiently in a zone close to the fire source.

Galileo's tone is thrilling: he is struggling to find things out, and his eye covers everything from the movement of birds in the air to the actual motion of cannonballs fired at the horizon, from the way stars glow to the way all movable bones of animals are rounded.

The voice of the loner — the participant-observer in a culture at once fascinating and repulsive — dominates this collection and produces some especially fine descriptions of the military's "athletic ballet": the "almost synchronous motion" of men firing mortars, for example.

Therefore, only large-scale motions of the fire are resolved.

We live on a spherical planet orbiting in a circular motion across a ball of fire and light.

These big battles are occasionally interrupted by standoffs in which Inspector Tequila is surrounded by a handful of mobsters and must dodge bullets (in slow motion, of course) while firing.