How To Use Celestial In A Sentence

Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
The word luminosity describes the nature of celestial light, and the music of composer James Whitbourn is a celebration of that light: peaceful, radiant and clear. James Whitbourn's Celestial Sounds
Infused then with the enlightenment only a brutal smackdown from a celestial being can provide, Jacob sets out to make peace with his brother, no matter the cost.
Often called gyroscopic stabilization, inertial stabilization enables the telescope to continually point at a celestial object while the aircraft maneuvers in flight. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
An aioli aromatic with coriander seed and lemon (mayo at its most celestial) makes for a strange and interesting contrast - not to mention the fact that it is good enough to eat straight.

Thou teachest "my hands to war and my fingers to fight" [361] against the invisible enemies of my salvation and blessedness; against the enemies of holiness and of the power of Thy glory; against the subcelestial spirits of evil. My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
Now here is what is interesting, the worshippers of Mithras strongly believed in a celestial heaven and an infernal hell.
An early result of that interest was his book Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico, which helped establish the field of archaeoastronomy - the study of the astronomical practices, celestial lore, and cosmologies of ancient cultures.
The moon is a celestial body.
The fancy can no more soar and disport in skyey regions, the beloved object ceases at once to be celestial, and remains plodding on earth, entirely unromantic and substantial. The Virginians
It's soft female harmonies layered on top of tinkling bells, xylophones and other gentle, celestial sounds.
Favores celestiales is a diaristic work he wrote about his missionary activities between 1687 and 1710, the year before his death. The indelible imprint of Father Kino (1644–1711)
Celestial Four sashayed forward, her silver and blue gown rippling like water over her rounded curves. Etched in Bone
One might distinguish two modalities of the aerial and the light: a transcendence that directs its celestial activity; and an aeriality that accepts a world without height or base.
Though V.F. elevated all of its elect to the same celestial plane, once apotheosized, nobody was sacred. Vanity Fair: The Early Years, 1914-1936
The early experiments involve simple angular measurement of the coordinates of celestial objects for star positions, planetary motions etc.
Apparently there were celestial pyrotechnics on a scale almost-unknown at this latitude.
It's noticeable that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in Alfred's time, by which time it was being written more or less contemporarily with events, records celestial phenomena, consecrations of bishops and deaths of bishops, kings and ealdormen, but not births, not even the births of King Alfred's children. Acha of Deira and Bernicia: daughter, sister, wife and mother of kings
Optatianus Porphyrius mentions more than once the monogram of Christ, which he calls the celestial sign, in the panegyric of Constantine which he wrote in Latin verse, but not A Philosophical Dictionary
Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du Château de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'Anthéron's Festival 2011
This sublime sphere, set amid the ordered nature of a landscaped garden, combined the functions of memorial and planetarium, conjoining the transience of humanity with the eternal celestial realm.
Flood and drought are the work of yin and yang in the subcelestial realm. Empresses and Consorts
The celestial choirs will sing and the world will be perfect'. The Sun
Birds may use celestial bodies or the Earth's magnetic field to steer their way but they also depend on major topographical features to aid in navigation.
They who had practised penances and observed excellent vows for amrita now seemed to be eager seekers after amrita (celestial ambrosia). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
Hundreds of stargazers had travelled as far north as Orkney and Shetland to witness the spectacular celestial event, but most were thwarted by clouds which obscured the rare phenomenon.
Claire describes Kate as a Gemini (in Western astrology — the study of the movements of celestial bodies, a Gemini is a person born under the third sign of the zodiac). "Lost" Viewing guides « Peace Corps: China
This was common practice during the Renaissance, when the same craftsmen made both celestial spheres and Earth globes.
There seemed to be no clouds in any part of the sky and as there is no moon it is quite dark so the celestial dome is very bright.
Like the linking verb in a sentence, it is meant to connect the microcosm of the original film with the celestial stratosphere of the finale.
Nor do we view the tiny flame of our own kindling (guarded in lasting purity as its light ever is) with greater awe than the celestial fires though they are often shrouded in darkness; nor do we deem it a greater marvel than the craters of Etna, whose eruptions throw up stones from its depths and great masses of rock, and at times pour forth rivers of that pure and unmixed subterranean fire. On the Sublime
There was assumed to be a counterpart in human events to every celestial phenomenon.
The main branches are astrometry, celestial mechanics, and astrophysics.
From this elevated angle, the crowd looked like a mass of glowing angels doing some sort of celestial dance.
This stelliferous zone almost completely encircles the sphere, which it divides into two nearly equal parts, and is inclined at an angle of 63° to the celestial equator. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
In 1958 Leimanis published some recent advances in the dynamics of rigid bodies and celestial mechanics.
I have watched you and your crew, how you preach up selfish ambition for divine charity and call prurient longings celestial love, while you blaspheme that very marriage from whose mysteries you borrow all your cant. The Saint's Tragedy
Three artists not normally mentioned in the same breath are brought together in an exhibition that explores light as a powerful, mysterious and celestial force. Times, Sunday Times
Such waves can hit a receiver, say a photographic plate, and produce an image of the celestial object.
Firstly, the understanding of baryon dark matter is reviewed, and the dark celestial body in our galaxy is called massive astrophysical compact halo object (MACHO).
There are no Gods, no grand plans, no celestial architects, no blissful after-lives and no eternal damnation.
The senate assembled, he declares the occasion of convening them; a bloody battle just impendent between two mighty armies of ancient and modern creatures, called books, wherein the celestial interest was but too deeply concerned. The Battle of the Books
the Celestial City was Christian's goal in Bunyan's `Pilgrim's Progress'
This is only the latest twist in the government's attempts to convict Mr. Jeffs on charges related to his leadership of a several-thousand member sect in which he arranges plural marriages and joins young girls and much-older men in what he calls "celestial marriages. Polygamist Leader Fires Lawyers, Takes on Own Case
For the celestial groundsman's final touch, early daffodils are starting to gild the verges with a hint of yellow by Buttermere and Bassenthwaite. Country diary: Lake District
These two so-called supermassive black holes, which are celestial objects with enormous gravitational pull, are locked in orbit about 5 billion light years away from Earth, the scientists said. The Times of India
As the car slowly rolled past him, he raised his bowl to the window, not speaking, and stared at me for a moment with celestial, incomprehensible, glacial blue eyes.
Verily we nourish a Sybel prophesier, which by the view of a candle doth divine of Celestiall things, and of the Sunne it selfe. The Golden Asse
An armillary sphere basically allows you to find the position of an object in the sky in relation to the celestial equator, (equatorial AS or 赤道经纬仪) or the ecliptic (the path of the sun across the sky) (ecliptical AS or 黄道经纬仪). Archive 2007-02-01
Returning health crept through his veins -- a serene, a kindly, a celestial joy circumfused his heart. Night and Morning, Volume 5
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
In humiliating contrast, one of China's few tangible rewards involved the set of Qing-dynasty instruments for observing the heavens-among them a Jesuit-designed quadrant, celestial globe and armilla-mentioned above. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
Hirschau, who died toward the end of the eleventh century, invented a horologium modeled after the celestial hemisphere; therefore he may have been the inventor of the clock, for soon after his death these striking bells begin to make their appearance on church towers and in other religious buildings. Christopher and the Clockmakers
Therein the mighty and incomprehensible God Himself is apprehensibly contained and worshipped; therein is revealed the nature of things celestial, terrestrial, and infernal; therein are discerned the laws by which every state is administered, the offices of the celestial hierarchy are distinguished, and the tyrannies of demons described, such as neither the ideas of Plato transcend, nor the chair of Crato contained. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
The sleepy Celestial seasons had gone flowering their way to paradise, and the opium-smuggler and her sycee silver lay safe and swallowed in ribs and jowl of quicksand. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Did I not tel you Father Albert, that my beauty was celestiall? The Decameron
This complementary data is also helping astronomers identify the celestial object that is releasing the gamma rays and allow it to be more fully analysed.
Our solar system lies in a suburb of a vast celestial city, a colossal community of stars, bound together by gravity the Milky Way galaxy.
Looked at from a celestial perspective, the American model of religion, far from retreating, is going global. Fun With Statistics
Cosmographical Dissertations; containing the cosmographical mystery respecting the admirable proportion of the celestial orbits, and the genuine and real causes of the number, magnitude, and periods of the planets, demonstrated by the five regular geometrical solids. ' The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
They helped her straighten the covers in the morning, and folded back the white sheet with celestial zest.
A sextant is a navigational instrument that measures the altitudes of celestial bodies. The Season of Risks
That sufficed for terrestrial physics, and Galileo did not speculate about celestial physics as did Kepler.
Titian, indeed, may be said to have first opened his eyes to the mysteries of nature; but they were no sooner opened, than he rushed into them with a rapidity and daring unwont to the more cautious spirit of his master; and, though irregular, eccentric, and often inferior, yet sometimes he made his way to poetical regions, of whose celestial hues even Titian himself had never dreamt. Lectures on Art
Boulliau: “The axiom that the celestial motions are circular or composed of circles must stand, and therefore I reject and repudiate his ellipses unless he should suppose them to be described by means of a Copernican or Tychonic epicycle.” (letter to Gassendi 1633) Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Sir Thomas Aquinas: ‘The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.’
Each year, as Earth moves through a trail of dust from the comet Swift-Tuttle's 133-year orbit, the night sky lights up in a hail of celestial fire known as the Perseid meteor shower Pasadena Star-News Most Viewed
The figures seem to fly like angels through a celestial space, painted on a great altarpiece.
Over 150 people, including school and college students, turned up at the planetarium on Thursday evening to view the celestial bodies.
Amboyna shows signs of commercial prosperity in the crowded _passer_ and the busy Chinese _campong_, for the enterprising Celestial forms an important element of the mercantile community in the Clove Island. Through the Malay Archipelago
The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
At the same time, Rahu is made immortal by his having tasted the celestial drink, Soma.
It may be a celestial object behaving strangely. The Sun
The rat-a-tat of the copier in a back office, punctuated by the ring of phones coming from everywhere, like fragments of celestial music trapped in a singularity.
The early experiments involve simple angular measurement of the coordinates of celestial objects for star positions, planetary motions etc.
When I was walking home, the moon was simply gigantic; it was a luminous, celestial pearl.
Early in January 1610 he discovered four satellites revolving about Jupiter, contradicting the idea of natural philosophers that the earth was the centre of all celestial motions.
Later, celestial navigation using sextants and fairly accurate clocks enabled absolute positioning, but the sailors had to refer back to dead reckoning on days with poor weather conditions.
There are also a couple of bad physics boners on their website - for instance, the claim that certain celestial radiation sources are made of ‘dark matter’.
In his instructions for constructing a celestial globe, Ptolemy recommended that all longitudes should be measured from Sirius, so that it would not become out of date as a result of precession.
Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.
In the coming months, astronomy enthusiasts are in for a string of rare celestial events involving the heavenly bodies in the solar system.
Already in the third century, St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, in his metaphrase, then Gregory of Nyssa, in eight homilies, later Hugh of St. Victor, in nineteen homilies, set forth the wisdom of Qoheleth as truly celestial and Divine. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
It's easy enough to gauge an asteroid's longitude and latitude (ascension and declination in astro-speak), but figuring out its current celestial position is tricky.
He knew that that creator himself of every object one, that exalted of all gods -- Narayana -- who had formerly commanded the celestials, saying, -- 'Be ye born on earth and slay one another and come back to heaven' -- that slayer of all the enemies of the gods, that subjugator of all hostile towns, in order to fulfil his own promise, had been born in the Kshatriya order. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
Then came the victory with Celestial Gold, who ironically was seen as a reserve for Johnson and Pipe's original first choice, Our Vic, the ante-post favourite for the race until he had to be withdrawn early last week with a muscle injury.
Chapter 4 deals with the process of creating ringed planets, star fields, and other celestial bodies.
A tropic point is the sun's position on the celestial sphere at the time of a solstice.
The 1979 Moon Treaty forbids ownership of the natural resources found on the Moon or other celestial bodies.
Himself is apprehensibly contained and worshipped; therein is revealed the nature of things celestial, terrestrial, and infernal; therein are discerned the laws by which every state is administered, the offices of the celestial hierarchy are distinguished, and the tyrannies of demons described, such as neither the ideas of Plato transcend, nor the chair of Crato contained. The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
Yeats refers to the concepts, in his treatises, of earthly and celestial hierarchies and of a ‘Mystical Theology’, through which knowledge of God and the progressive deification of man may be attained by a process of Neoplatonic abstraction. Later Articles and Reviews
Celestial mechanician wrote: how do you account for the Periodic Table that is made up of hydrogen like orbitals? Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask
The deities are often thought of as inhabiting farms on sacred hills or celestial mountains. Phoenix From the Flame
Right ascension makes it easy to use the apparent diurnal rotation of the celestial sphere as a means to telling time.
In particular he identified the five elements, fire, earth, air, water and celestial matter with the five regular solids, the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
One picture in that book, of a joyous naked child arching through the sky in front of a celestial city, remains my earliest image of heaven.
The principle of star patterns matching for celestial guidance to correct the initial localization and orientation errors occurred in mobile launching of ballistic missile is described.
The celestial bodies than proceed to pass through the same series of configurations as they had done countless times before.
Whichever camp you are in, the same celestial advice will apply - hit below the belt.
Virtuoso percussionist and soloist David Cossin displays remarkable genius as he deftly creates unique, sensuous, organic and sometimes celestial sounds using a range of water-based instruments.
Therefore, although the Lion Dog of Buddha is most often identified as the Pekingese from China, the Lhasa Apso and the Tibetan spaniel began as alternative attempts, made by Buddhist lamas in Tibet, to capture the look of the celestial lion. The Pawprints of History
It was about a celestial vehicle used by heavenly beings.
There was a second lighter dark patch up there that rivaled the first one and I almost laughed at my odd desperation to see nature's celestial beauty.
Only that mighty mass of clouds called Arjuna, aided by Krishna like unto a powerful wind, with celestial weapon representing its fierce lightning, the white steeds, the rows of white cranes coursing underneath and the unbearable Gandiva, the rainbow ahead, is capable of extinguishing the blazing flame represented by Karna by means of its arrowy showers let off with unflagging steadiness. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
The waterproof unit takes three AA batteries and has built-in celestial tables. Radio Reviews: Field & Stream Tests Four Handheld Radios from Garmin, Midland, Motorola and Cobra
The very system of uranography which maintains itself to the present day on our celestial globes and maps, and which is still acknowledged -- albeit under protest -- in the nomenclature of scientific astronomers, came in all probability from this source, reaching us from the Arabians, who took it from the Greeks who derived it from the Babylonians. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
But locomotions caused without immediate transmission were understood to be be embedded in larger patterns of causation which observed the principle of causational synonymy, and it is exactly such a larger pattern of causation which is missing in the case of celestial motions. Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
It didn't stop there: other celestial objects, such as certain comets, were found to move along hyperbolic orbits.
Not simply in a by analogy, ‘Consider the lilies’, sense 2, but in the sense that fundamental mechanisms about what we see can ONLY come from (messy, imperfect) animals and not from the (clean, perfect) mathematical focus of earlier workers (Francis mentions, germanely, Bablyonian astronomy/astrology – these deal with relatively ‘pure’ concepts and predictable celestial motions, not the uncertainty with which biology has traffic). "Let them learn Latin"
While training in celestial navigation however, Grissom, as a practical joke, quietly incorporated three new names onto NASA's star list: Dnoces (which was really Iota Ursae Majoris or Talitha), Navi (Epsilon Cassiopeiae) and Regor (Gamma Velorum or Suhail). Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
The deities are often thought of as inhabiting farms on sacred hills or celestial mountains. Phoenix From the Flame
Excellent patterns, celestial exemplars, of the things required were held up to it; and endless declamation and argument why it should be that, and not the other, were not wanting: -- but as to any scientific inquiry into the nature of the thing on which this form was to be superinduced, as to any _scientific_ exhibition of the form itself which was to be superinduced, these so essential conditions of the proposed result, were in this case alike wanting. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
When she did this in 1572 with the Duke of Montmorency and their entourage to view the tilt at night from the North gallery, the yard and its terraces illuminated by torches was described as "a theatre celestiall. The Globe Theater
Within a few months after his celestial revelation, Atkinson had a mock-up of the program.
A vernal equinox represents the instant at which the sun lies exactly between the north and south celestial poles.
Quantity considered in the movements of the celestial bodies is geometrical astronomy; from which arise cosmography or description of the universe, which is divided into uranography or description of the heavens, hydrography or description of waters, and geography; whence also arise chronology and gnomonics, or the art of constructing sundials.
She contributed to her father's texts on mathematics and astronomy, often compiling tables of the position of celestial bodies.
I would gladly know how Moses, with an actual fire, calcined or burnt the golden calf into powder: for that mystical metal of gold, whose solary and celestial nature Religio Medici
But in twistor theory, a light ray is defined as a single point in light-ray space, and a space-time point P is represented by the celestial sphere's worth of light rays through P " in other words by a complex curve (a Riemann sphere) running through light-ray space." link Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
So how would you react if were provided with a chance to view these celestial phenomenon and heavenly bodies from within the precincts of your school, most of which would normally be invisible to the naked eye?
Writing and wrapping completed, we became celestial mail carriers searching out the best mailbox.
It for ever remains unalterable in form as it moves through the celestial realm in eternal rotation.
He describes the Damascene moment when he decided to build the village like a celestial visitation.
As a result, throughout the subcelestial realm there was internal harmony and families were regulated. Empresses and Consorts
Depending on what potentiality he develops, he may become a plant, an animal, a celestial being, an angel, or he may even be unified with God himself.
A semi-chorus, which can also be sung by three solo voices ( "The Pain is over"), closes the sad scene, the ritornelle at the end being made still more effective by the harps, which give it a celestial character. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
The text itself is divided into nine sections, structured so that each section moves the reader through the celestial hierarchy of angels, from the lowest order to the highest.
But in twistor theory, a light ray is defined as a single point in light-ray space, and a space-time point P is represented by the celestial sphere's worth of light rays through P — in other words by a complex curve (a Riemann sphere) running through light-ray space. link Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
Boulliau: “The axiom that the celestial motions are circular or composed of circles must stand, and therefore I reject and repudiate his ellipses unless he should suppose them to be described by means of a Copernican or Tychonic epicycle.” (letter to Gassendi 1633) Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
That is what we call the celestial nose, because it is always pointing skyward and serves as a perpetual interrogation point. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony
Galileo took the position that all celestial phenomena should be interpreted in terms of terrestrial analogies, against Aristotle's basic postulate of essential differences.
He just watched her, like a statue of celestial beauty, while he licked his lips and the snow fell and collected in his hair.
In order to calculate the orbit of the satellite, we established satellite movement model based on celestial mechanics and spaceflight dynamics.
The force which retains the celestial bodies in their orbits has been hitherto called centripetal force; but it being now made plain that it can be no other than a gravitating force, we shall hereafter call it gravity. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
A point on the celestial sphere directly below the observer, diametrically opposite the zenith.
This new perception of celestial motion immediately explained numerous daily observations and solved problems of astronomical coherence.
Celestial White Taller than wide; branching low to the ground; resistant to dogwood anthracnose and mildew; former know as Galaxy SELECT A KOUSA DOGWOOD
Celestial objects such as stars and planets typically are born in regions dense with dust and gas.
The title of the latter work alludes to the astronomical notion that the area behind Orion is a kind of celestial incubator, generating uncountable new stars.
At the same time, Buddhas have the power to manifest themselves in a sublime celestial form in splendid paradises where they teach the doctrine surrounded by hosts of Bodhisattvas and supernatural beings.
A celestial organ devolves into the shrill shrieks of swooping banshees, and deep rumbles sound like the dyspeptic gurgles in a huge beasts' stomach.
They have flown to La Coruna in northern Spain to examine the trawler Celestial Dawn, which underwent an extensive refit in Devon after the Trident sinking in which seven men died.
When no landmarks or aids to navigation are visible, navigators may use the Sun, the Moon, or other celestial bodies to fix the craft's position.
Moses with an actual fire calcined or burnt the Golden Calf unto powder: for that mystical metal of Gold, whose solary [125] and celestial nature I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows onely hot, and liquifies, but consumeth not; so, when the consumable and volatile pieces of our bodies shall be refined into a more impregnable and fixed temper like Gold, though they suffer from the action of flames, they shall never perish, but lye immortal in the arms of fire. Religio Medici
It was easy to imagine legions of Internet-era Andrew Marvells staying up late in fluorescent-lit cubicles appending metaphysical exclamation points to celebrity photo captions that would rocket readers ever closer to the celestial objects of their desire: Shooting Britney
The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.
It was true it had never occurred to him to look at Susy in the light of a celestial visitant, and I fear he was just then more struck with the fair complimenter than the compliment to his companion, but he was pleased for her sake. A Waif of the Plains
I see them also as my joys invaluable, divine, and celestial.
n. obsession with numbers, especially compulsion to count things. arithmometer, armiferous adj. - carrying weapons or arms. adj. - like, pertaining to or composed of rings. armillary sphere, celestial globe composed only of rings marking equator, tropics, etc. Xml's Blinklist.com
It is "to love only terrestrial life, to the detriment of the ascending and celestial path," to be "exteriorized," and to "love only outer things, to the detriment of moral and spiritual values. One Cʘsmos
The Lady had indeed a celestial beauty, but also carried a strong, fierce independence that also made her beautiful.
She also wrote books on astronomy, compiled tables of positions of celestial bodies and designed several scientific instruments.
He witnessed also the disgrace of his bow Gandiva and the unpropitiousness of his celestial weapons. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
By these three virtues we ascend to philosophize in that celestial Athens where Stoics and Peripatetics and Epicureans, by the light of eternal truth, join ranks in a single harmonious will.
He relied on the theory of correspondences to explain how gains in the material sphere might parallel those in the celestial.
celestial peace
There he gave courses on astronomy, celestial mechanics, the differential and integral calculus, the theory of probability, geometry and trigonometry.
It deals with the principles of atomism; the nature of the mind and soul; explanations of sensation and thought; the development of the world and its phenomena; and explains a variety of celestial and terrestrial phenomena. Archive 2009-03-01
Equally amazing was the ability of the sell-out audiences at the outdoor amphitheater in the celestial vault of the Parc du ChÃ¢teau de Florans, a venue bordered by 365 plane trees and a sprinkling of sequoia redwoods, to accommodate and enjoy the extraordinary range of performances, often on two different programs per evening, from solo recitals of the most intimate nature to the great concertos with orchestra. Laurence Vittes: Pianists Are Lords of the Ring in La Roque d'AnthÃ©ron's Festival 2011
And the only women in the celestial kingdom will be those dutiful, obedient plural wives who are invited there by their husbands to serve them for all eternity.
Because (quoth he) thou didst so saucily presume this day, to reprove the celestiall beauty of Madam Lisetta, who (next to my Mother Venus) I love most dearely. The Decameron
The witty effect, aided by a subtle garlic cream, is that of some celestial new variety of deviled crab.
Finally, sit back and enjoy the show as bits of leftover comet burn up in our atmosphere, creating the celestial displays that we call meteor showers. RedOrbit News - Technology
This hulking Atlas is carrying the universe upon his shoulders, a hollow orb ringed with the constellations of the celestial sphere.
In particular he identified the five elements, fire, earth, air, water and celestial matter with the five regular solids, the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
The eleven wooden vessels were powered by the wind and guided by the celestial bodies, thanks to that remarkable scientific instrument, the sextant.
But the vortex theory did not explain the gravitation of terrestrial objects towards the earth's poles, and, when applied to celestial matter, the theory clashed with certain known facts about planetary movements.
An abbreviatory sign having been attached to each of these constellations, the great celestial belt containing them was called "the wheel of the signs," or "a wheel in the middle of a wheel," as designated by that old Astrologer, Ezekiel the Prophet, in chap.i. and 16th verse. Astral Worship
I think the faculty was more impressed by my adventurous spirit and audacity than my celestial beauty in that performance!
This is not about becoming spritely, so much as a little celestial.
In a celestial Palomo Grove: a small, safe town in a small, safe valley, where the sun always shone and the realty business was good. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Celestial civilization cultivates a Temporal - Space Ontology which is essential for this.
Hundreds of stargazers had travelled as far north as Orkney and Shetland to witness the spectacular celestial event, but most were thwarted by clouds which obscured the rare phenomenon.
Your first thought: if a woman is being jilted by celestial bodies she must be doing something wrong. Times, Sunday Times
You can't help but feel blessed to be alive, to be able to witness such celestial beauty.
Celestial and August: a vase imitating the substance of ore-rock, all aflame with pyritic scintillation, -- a shape of glittering splendor with chameleons sprawling over it; chameleons of porcelain that shifted color as often as the beholder changed his position. Some Chinese Ghosts
Astronomers used and authored astrological tracts, astronomical tables and ephemerides, calendars and weather diaries, cosmographies, defences and histories of their discipline, instrument-treatises, observations of celestial phenomena, studies on optics, theories of planetary motion, and works on geometry and trigonometry.
These chosen souls, He inundates with celestial gifts, -- revealing glimpses of His glory and beauty, transforming them into Himself, so as in a manner to divinize them, and even sometimes imparting visible external marks of their sublime spiritual exaltation. The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
She draws some truly eloquent sounds from the organ, which though relatively young, is an instrument of incomparable celestial beauty.
The as each country government relaxation on international is control, open of celestial policy carry out, also the obstacle of intromit aviation industry is abate.
… in twistor theory, a light ray is defined as a single point in light-ray space, and a space-time point P is represented by the celestial sphere's worth of light rays through P … Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
Your first thought: if a woman is being jilted by celestial bodies she must be doing something wrong. Times, Sunday Times
The satellite, called Astron, is intended to study ultraviolet radiation and X-rays from celestial objects.
Pulses represent any celestial radio signal of a fixed frequency that is distinguishable above the background noise.
Although there is no air in space, energy is carried by radiation, usually coming from the Sun, that causes heating when it is absorbed by spacecraft, planets or other celestial bodies.
Labour to keep alive in your breast that spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
The only other painting in the room is Tinteretto's giant picture of paradise, a celestial human traffic jam.
The third comprises the angels, whose law is Celestial.
Then he briefly describes the four principal circles of the celestial sphere: equator, zodiac, and the two tropic circles.
Arya Tara, a celestial Buddha, is often referred to as the mother of all Buddhas, and her image is in monasteries and temples throughout Central Asia. April L. Bogle: Her Holiness: Is the Time Right for a Female Dalai Lama?
An occasional sibilance of hazy white noise and clattering of plates pock marks the almost celestial church organ that began the piece.
In particular he identified the five elements, fire, earth, air, water and celestial matter with the five regular solids, the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, icosahedron and the dodecahedron.
Vos, senhora conuidada, nesta cea soberana celestial aueis mister ser apartada Four Plays of Gil Vicente
There are epic songs with celestial choirs and rolling drums throughout. The Sun
No other human beings have landed on a celestial body. Times, Sunday Times
Now would be a perfect chance to get the kids excited about Kuiper Belt and Trans-Neptunian Objects, and maybe the whole celestial object naming business. Planet-x.com.au » 29.04.10-Name a Minor Planet! : Astro Guyz
On the macroscopic scale, for most problems in celestial mechanics, Newtons theory of gravity, supplemented by treating relativistic effects as a small (very small) perturbation and irregularities in the mass distribution of gravitating bodies as multipole effects works extremely well. Matthew Yglesias » Cato’s David Boaz Joins George Will in Peddling Bogus “Global Cooling” Stories
The celestial harp sound plays, which means it's time for him to move on. Times, Sunday Times

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