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	Medieval Cosmology
		In this geocentric model, the earth was the motionless center of the universe, with the rest of the universe revolving around it in spheres.
		The sublunary sphere was comprised of the four elements (earth, water, fire, and air).
		The Prime Mover became the Christian God, the outermost sphere became heaven, and the earth was the center of God's attention.
	www.luminarium.org /encyclopedia/medievalcosmology.htm (411 words)

	[EMLS 4.2 / SI 3 (September, 1998): 9.1-27] John Donne's Use of Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		[13] The sphere enclosed by the orbit of the moon was called the sublunary sphere and the sphere above it, the celestial sphere.
		In the sublunary sphere everything was always becoming something else, living and dying, but the celestial sphere was made from better, purer, simpler stuff than the sublunary sphere, and the heavenly bodies lasted for all time, and moved for all time in a regular pattern.
		These metaphysical attributes of space allowed Donne to imagine metaphysical relationships in spatial terms; in terms of the sphere, circle, centre, circumference and set of concentric circles that gave shape to space in the closed cosmos, where space took shape and meaning from the forms that filled it.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/04-2/gortjohn.htm (5233 words)

	The Cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to Elizabethan belief, there were nine or ten spheres, belonging in order of distance from the Earth to the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; in the eighth sphere, the Firmament, were the stars.
		The outer sphere, the Primum Mobile, was moved by God, and it set the others in motion.
		As they moved, the spheres made a music that human beings could not hear because they were attuned to it—they were too used to it to notice it.
	www.moval.edu /faculty/adderleym/shakespeare/the_cosmos.htm (873 words)

	The Geocentric or Ptolemaic Notion of the Universe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This diagram imagines the universe split in half like an onion, revealing the "spheres" with the Earth at the center, the most important, but at the same time the most imperfect, of God's creations.
		The area within the Moon's "sphere" was called the "sublunary sphere" (from Latin sub = "under" and luna = "moon").
		As the Moon was the only heavenly body that appeared to change, to wax and wane, it was taken as a sign of the Mortality which entered the Earth as a result of the Fall of Man due to Original Sin, the sin of Adam and Eve, according to the account in Genesis.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/mel/ptolemaic.html (452 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: sublunary
		Situated beneath the moon; hence, of or pertaining to this world; terrestrial; earthly.
		In Shakespearean drama, both tragic and comic, the storms and calamities that shake the sublunary globe are reflections of turmoil in the hearts of men.
		Sublunary is from the Latin sublunaris, from sub, "under" + luna, "the moon."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2003/01/29.html (115 words)

	Holodemiurgia: Descent of the Soul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sphere of Same corresponds to the second of the three primary senses of Being: Identity and judgments of Identity (Cornford 78).
		The Sphere of the Same is associated with knowledge of Being (epistêmê), which is certain and eternal, because this Sphere has a single, circular motion, the motion of measured Celestial Time (Cornford 83, 95, 103).
		The "opinable" (doxaste) is thus a composite of the intelligible (Sphere of Same) and the sensible (Sublunary Sphere, associated with lower parts of the soul) (Dillon 30).
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/OM/BA/OM/BA/Holodemiurgia/ann/katagoge.html (5819 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The outermost sphere is where the prime mover is to be found.
		Each sphere has it's characteristics with the strongest spiritual influence nearest the surface, that is out in the spheres of the prime mover and the stars.
		Astrology then is seen as the spiritual science of interpreting the influences of the various spheres as shown by the positions of the planets, in terms of what manifests at the heart of the onion, that is, on earth.
	www.leroseblanche.org /tradrefs1.htm (552 words)

	Orphic.html
		Thus in the sublunary sphere we are told that 'Heaven terminates, Earth corroborates, and Ocean moves all generation' (Proc., Tim., v.298).
		For this 'starry-eyed darkness' is the sphere of the fixed stars, the region immediately beyond which consists of the ethereal worlds, which according to the Chaldæans are three.
		For by 'wholeness' Proclus means 'the sphere in which the visible orb of the sun is fixed, and which is called a "wholeness", because it has a perpetual subsistence, and comprehends in itself all the multitude of which it is the cause' (Taylor, ibid.).
	myweb.cableone.net /subru/Orphic.html (11322 words)

	WowEssays.com - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
		Donne also lived in a time where everyone excepted the Ptolemaic theory of the universe, which stated that the planets moved in an orbit around the earth in concentric cirlcles annd that the universe was attached to spheres of crystal that often moved or shook.
		So in the third quatrain when Donne compares the fears and harms of earthquakes to the “trepidation of the spheres” as being innocent, he is contrasting the the love of ordinary people which is not divine and subject to decay, to the love of him and his lady which is divine.
		So when disturbances happen between their love, if he leaves, it will be like the far-off trembling of in the heavens and will be “innocent” and have no major bearin on their relationship.(Damrosch 238-239) Donne continues to refer to the Ptolemaic universe in the fourth and fifth stanzas.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ae3/tmw264.shtml (1286 words)

	Ideas that have Helped Mankind - Bertrand Russell
		In the regions below the moon, the 'sublunary' sphere, there was change and decay; the 'natural' motion of bodies was rectilinear, but any body in motion, if left to itself, would gradually slow up and presently stop.
		From the moon upwards, on the contrary, the 'natural' motion of bodies was circular, or compounded of circular motions, and in the heavens there was no such thing as change or decay, except the periodic changes of the orbits of the heavenly bodies.
		The movements of the heavenly bodies were not spontaneous, but were passed on to them from the primum mobile, which was the outermost of the moving spheres, and itself derived its motion from the Unmoved Mover, i.e.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Oracle/2528/br_ideahelp.htm (6340 words)

	Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought (Chapter 3)
		Beyond this again is the sphere of the Primum mobile which has motion imparted to it by divine power, thus causing it to move each of the spheres within.
		Just as the earth cannot be the centre of the infinite universe, so neither can the sphere of the fixed stars nor any other sphere be its circumference, however much, comparing earth and sky, the earth may appear nearer to the centre, and the heaven nearer to the circumference.
		His Castle of Knowledge containing the explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall of 1556 is in the conventional form of a dialogue between a Master and a Schollar.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/bruno03.htm (11789 words)

	Hermetic Astrology: From the Renaissance to the Early Modern Era
		Prior to the universal acceptance of Copernicus’s heliocentric vision in the seventeenth century, the nature of reality comprised a religious doctrine that was beyond question.
		This hierarchical clock-work universe was the governor of all life in the sublunary (earthly) sphere of birth, age, and death; of coming to be and passing away; and flux and change.
		Not only did this create obvious problems for astrologers, (since accurate knowledge of the positions of the planets is essential for astrological interpretation), but their increasing inaccuracy threatened to generate an unprecedented theological crisis within the Catholic Church.
	www.elemental-astrology.com /astrology-articles/hermetic.html (4563 words)

	English 233: Developments in Astronomy & Physics, 1543-1687
		This was part and parcel of the overall picture that called for two distinct sorts of physics -- a terrestrial physics to explain the behavior of matter in the sublunary sphere, and a celestial physics to explain the behavior of matter in the superlunary realm.
		All sublunary matter is naturally at rest -- at the center of the cosmos (if a substance, like the primitive species of matter termed "earth," is heavy), at the sphere of the moon (if, like fire, it is light).
		Recall that 16th-century followers of Copernicus were already imagining that the stars might not all lie on a single sphere that constituted the outer boundary of the cosmos, but rather that the universe might be of indefinite size.
	www-personal.ksu.edu /~lyman/english233/cosmos3.htm (5027 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was assumed that the stars had special qualities and influences which were transmitted downwards upon the passive earth, and which varied in their effect, according to the changing relationship of the heavenly bodies to each other.
		It was generally accepted that the four elements constituting the sublunary region (earth, air, fire & water) were kept in their state of ceaseless transformation by the movement of the heavenly bodies.
		These four spheres of activity - general predictions, nativities, elections and horary questions - formed the sum of the astrologer's art.
	www.antiessays.com /free-essays/2317.html (3574 words)

	Herman's Wooing: A story from 1830s Gettysburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Ah, yes, with the approach of February 14, a man's fancy turns to the pursuit of the "fairer sex." So for St. Valentine's Day, take heart of a story from 1830s Gettysburg.
		In 1881, he wrote that he "became an inhabitant of this sublunary sphere" on March 26, 1817, in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love.
		It was too late to run… I was trotted up and down the street all evening, and compelled to promise to join a picnic…." At that picnic, Herman met a daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Keller, Anna Cecilia.
	www.emmitsburg.net /achs/articles/people/herman_wooing.htm (374 words)

	Science News: Danish astronomer argues for a changing cosmos - Brief Article
		Any discernible motion would indicate the point-like object was not a star but an object nearer than the moon, within the so-called sublunary sphere.
		Indeed, in a report to the king, Tycho calculates that the comet must lie farther away than 230 times the radius of Earth, or more than four times the distance to the moon.
		There can be no doubt that the comet is a bona fide celestial body, beyond the sublunary sphere, and thus in direct conflict with the teachings of the ancients, Tycho says.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_1999_Dec_18/ai_58458966 (722 words)

	Comparison : search word
		The issue arises with words such as perfect, which according to the prescriptivists is another quality that does not admit of comparison; either something is perfect or it is not.
		Since true perfection is unachievable in the sublunary sphere, people like the drafters of the Constitution of the United States are constantly saying things like form a more perfect union; what they mean, of course, is more nearly perfect, and this is what the usage prescriptivists think they should have written.
		Since good writers and important leaders have used the contested form, the prescriptivists are bucking a well established usage here; in practice, the contested form is understood without error.
	www.searchword.org /co/comparison.html (853 words)

	THE EXACT LOCATION OF GOD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Sun, Moon, and the five planets that are visible to the naked eye were observed to move in regular ways against the background of the stars, so to explain this, each one was assigned a layer of heaven, a rotating crystal sphere to ride on, like shells of an onion.
		As you rose through the heavens toward God, you first passed through the sublunary sphere, the realm below the Moon containing air, weather, change, decay, and Earthly ills.
		You passed the sphere carrying the Moon -- the first level of perfect heaven -- then, in order, the spheres of Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, to reach the sphere of fixed stars: seventh heaven.
	home.comcast.net /~fpbsermons/macrobrt.htm (2877 words)

	Summary of Pythagorean Theology III: Gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the same manner He creates all other souls (Celestial, Daimonic, and Sublunary) along with their vehicles; they are governed by the Laws of Fate.
		In particular, in the Aetherial Realm, Zeus rules the Sphere of Fixed Stars, Poseidon rules the Planetary Spheres, and Hades rules the Sublunary Sphere.
		We might expect Kronos to hold the Sphere of Saturn, but since He is the First God, the Saturnian Sphere is assigned to His wife Demeter (here equated with Rhea, an identification made as early as the fifth century BCE).
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/BA/OM/BA/ETP/III.html (7319 words)

	A.Word.A.Day--Today's Word
		[From Late Latin sublunaris, from Latin sub- (below) + lunaris (of the moon), from luna (moon).
		Two other words which come from the same Latin root luna are lunatic (moonstruck) and lunula (crescent-shaped white area at the base of the fingernail).]
		"If the theme of the upper shelf is discord in the heavens, most of the objects on the lower shelf refer to anarchy down below, here in the mutable sublunary sphere of human affairs."
	www.wordsmith.org /words/sublunary.html (180 words)

	Astrology History, History of Astrology at Greeting Cards.com
		Although there are astrologers who try to put astrology on sound scientific principles, for many more it is a technology and an art that merges calculations with intuitive perceptions.
		The core principles of astrology reflect general principles, which were universally accepted in the ancient world, that events in the heavens must have analogies, even counterparts here below, in what poets until recently were calling the "sublunary sphere".
		From China to Babylon, the untoward movement of a comet across the orderly movement of the heavens was taken as a portent of disaster: the very word still contains its "star" root, aster.
	www.birthdaycards.com /info/wiki/216.html (2809 words)

	THE ORPHIC THEOGONY - Orphic Pantheon by G. R. S. Meade
		This shape, therefore, is the paternal type of the universe, and reveals itself in the
		first boiled his members [powers] in water [the psychic sphere], and after roasted them by the fire [the spiritual sphere].
		But while they were tasting his flesh, thus dressed, Jupiter [the parent-soul], roused by the odour, and perceiving the cruelty of the deed,
	www.piney.com /Orphic.html (12028 words)

	Astrology on the Web: Quiz Answer
		The ancient schema of the cosmos as set out by Ptolemy is:
		The Music of the Spheres is the sound made by these concentric, cosmic spheres as they vibrated in their eternal motion.
		Modern Astrology recognises 10 planets including the Sun and Moon (but not the Earth).
	www.astrologycom.com /answer8.html (206 words)

	Moon Lore: Moon Spots: II. The Man in the Moon
		To us the music of the spheres is exalting as it is exalted; and the music of earth is a "sphere-descended maid, friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid." We are therefore disposed to hear the following lines, which have been handed down for publication.
		And now we record a few visits which men of this sublunary sphere are said to have paid to the moon.
		Remembering our littleness as contrasted with the magnitude of the whole creation, we prefer to believe that there are rational creatures in other worlds besides this small-sized sphere in, it may be, a small-sized system.
	www.sacred-texts.com /astro/ml/ml06.htm (8860 words)

	The Exile of the Soul by Roy Mitchell
		That another race beyond these- our own - whose duty it was to transmit higher powers to the lower race, refused to accept responsibility for the misshapen creatures, or to enter into them.
		That at last under cosmic law the higher race was compelled to do so, was drawn down into the sphere of earth, where its individuals dwell now, embodying themselves as rarely as cosmic law will permit, in the misshapen bodies of the beings they have to redeem.
		That by their rebellion they have lost a great measure of the powers they first brought to earth, and instead of being the Unity they once were, are a scattered and terrified host.
	theosophical.ca /ExileSoul.htm (20260 words)

	John Derbyshire on Immigration on National Review Online
		When I recently got an e-mail from a reader who is actually a professor of astronomy, I asked him: "Where is this 'dark matter' your colleagues talk about so much?" He replied: "Inside their heads, mostly..."
		Meanwhile, down here in the sublunary sphere, there is a different sort of Great Attractor: the United States of America.
		Everybody wants to come to America — had you noticed?
	www.nationalreview.com /derbyshire/derbyshire052802.asp (1849 words)

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