 Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird...  The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ... - Page 621834Full view - About this book
 | Selim Hobart Peabody - 1869 - 388 pages
...opinion was generally adopted by philosophers, and Milton refers to it when he speaks of the heavens as "With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." Fig. 83. The figure shows the supposed path of Mars from 1708 to 1723. The earth is supposed to be... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 pages
...puzzle, and the scheme of the universe an enigma, as profound and dark as the riddle of the Sphinx. With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. The beautiful heavens racked the brain of man, and continually solicited his exertions to bring order... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1869 - 602 pages
...had his numerous satellites, and so had Fox. There was a good deal of complexity in the system, — " With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." But the great centre of all, — the vast attractive mass towards which all gravitated, and round which... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1870 - 508 pages
...how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." See also Nichol, Solar System, p. 7 : " Nothing in later times ought to obscure the glory of Hipparchus,... | |
 | Edward Thomson - 1870 - 276 pages
...heaven, "How they wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb ;" yet every progress of thought "making confusion worse confounded." Indian idolatry has touched bottom.... | |
 | John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...how they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb. Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 678 pages
...how they will wield ^ The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o/er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb: Already by thy reasoning this I guess, Who art to lead thy offspring, and supposest That bodies bright... | |
 | Walter William Skeat - 1873 - 154 pages
...stars how they will wield The mighty frame how build unbuild contrive To save appearances how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er Cycle and epicycle orb in orb Already by thy reasoning this I guess Who art to lead thy offspring and supposes! That bodies bright... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...How they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive, To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.' knew there were no such things ; and, in like manner, that the Schoolmen had framed a number of subtile... | |
 | 1873 - 442 pages
...the details of chronologers and those of the ancient astronomers, as Mikon has drawn them, who " Gird the sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb." We do not state these things in order to depreciate the value of chronological studies, nor in order... | |
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