Sentence examples for nested spheres from inspiring English sources
Through Islamic astronomers, Ptolemy's nested spheres became a standard feature of medieval cosmology.
Applied NanoMaterials, a New York-based firm that is commercialising some of his work, has launched a lubricant called NanoLub, which is made of nested spheres of tungsten and sulphur atoms.
The nested spheres represent likeness to the actual world.
They turned nested spheres of graphite into tiny pressure chambers by bombarding them with high-speed electrons and ions.
Although the metaphysics of light is fundamentally non-Aristotelian in nature, Grosseteste clearly was concerned to use it to explain many of the features of the Aristotelian cosmos the system of nested spheres, the distinction between the motion of celestial and sublunary bodies, and so forth.
8. Swerdlow and Neugebauer (58) claimed that "[o]ne of the principal reasons Copernicus adopted the heliocentric theory is that it gives the distances of the planets from the mean sun unambiguously, and it gives them without making any assumptions about nested spheres".
Both astronomical scholars and popular writers considered the implications of the nested sphere model for the dimensions of the universe.
General understanding of the dimensions of the universe derived from the nested sphere model reached wider audiences through the presentations in Hebrew by Moses Maimonides, in French by Gossuin of Metz, and in Italian by Dante Alighieri.
The nested sphere model's distances to the Sun and planets differ significantly from modern measurements of the distances, and the size of the universe is now known to be inconceivably large and possibly infinite.
Albert Van Helden has suggested that from about 1250 until the 17th century, virtually all educated Europeans were familiar with the Ptolemaic model of "nesting spheres and the cosmic dimensions derived from it".
Grosseteste employs the notion of light to explain the genesis of the Aristotelian cosmos as a system of nested celestial spheres surrounding the four sublunary or elemental spheres.
