 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
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1915 - 346 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. (PL, viii. 72.) He suggests the Copernican theory with more sympathy — What if the Sun Be centre... | |
 | 1917 - 598 pages
...Raphael the presumption of astronomers who " build, upbuild, contrive to save appearances," and Gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb. But Milton's criticism of the ingenuity of the astronomers is less caustic than More's: Here 'gins... | |
 | Dorothy Stimson - 1917 - 162 pages
...used to represent the newly observed phenomena till in the later Middle Ages the universe became a " Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb" — l Yet the heliocentric theory was not forgotten. Vitruvius, a famous Roman architect of the Augustan... | |
 | David Peck Todd - 1922 - 422 pages
...added epicycle to epicycle, until there was every justification for Milton's verses descriptive of the sphere: With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb. CHAPTER VII ASTRONOMY OF THE MIDDLE AGES WITH the fall of Alexandria and the victory of Mohammed throughout... | |
 | 1917 - 616 pages
...harmful. We are told that when the Ptolemaic system of astronomy was explained to a certain King of Spain, The Sphere, With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb, he said that if the Almighty had consulted him before creating the universe he could have given Him... | |
 | Thomas Stenhouse - 1922 - 198 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." Yet in the words, " The earth that might with far less compass move," he inclines to the new teaching... | |
 | Denis Saurat - 1925 - 400 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.84 And the laughter of Heaven is on men's confusion over the Tower of Babel: But God, who oft descends... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 402 pages
...frame; how build, unbuild, contrive, > nu. 7. 635-40. » Uid. 8. 1-14. 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... | |
 | 1860 - 804 pages
...till all the simplicity of the original hypothesis was lost in a complication of epicycles : — " It's apoplexy, — I told you so, — don't you see how red he is in the face ? " said By the end of the sixteenth century the number of circles supposed necessary for the seven stars then... | |
 | 1909 - 502 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 supposest That bodies bright... | |
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