The resulting Ptolemaic system persisted, with minor adjustments, until the Earth was displaced from the centre of the universe in the 16th and 17th centuries by the Copernican system and by Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
In contrast, environmental writer Paul Kingsnorth's short-listed first novel, The Wake, created a self-contained universe set in 11th-century Lincolnshire about the time of the Norman invasion replete with its own language: a "shadow tongue" intended to convey the feeling of Anglo-Saxon English. Anglo-Saxon English
Created in south India sometime in the 9th or 10th century, the Shiva Nataraja, as it is known, depicts "the dancer whose dance is the universe," in the words of the great mythologist Joseph Campbell.
The universe in a handful of dirt.
Newcomer Molly Smitten-Downes flew the flag for the UK with her self-penned song Children of the Universe, but finished in 17th place with 40 points.
The gene universe in the analysis consists of 13125 transcripts that were mapped to ENTREZ genes.
Research universe consists of 7th grade students studying at Malatya Central District secondary schools.
Last year, former shop assistant Molly Smitten-Downes trundled in 17th with her song 'Children Of The Universe'.
We can find similar but varied models of the universe in the Dogon stool made in Mali in the 19th or early-20th century and in a Tabwa basket of a later date from Congo, some 2,000 miles away.
His mother was Welsh and was the 2nd Miss Universe in 1976.
But in the crowded media universe of the 21st century, the only way to get noticed is to be distinctive, controversial and brave.
