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celestial sphere

noun as in celestial body

noun as in celestial object

noun as in heavenly body

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But from a terrestrial perspective, the celestial sphere appears essentially unchanging.

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This pairing hums with a soft energy, attuned perhaps to the same celestial spheres that Gouverneur hoped to crack open.

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But there’s no need to be perfectly versed in every detail of the celestial sphere.

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In his only surviving work, Hipparchus criticized earlier astronomical writers for not caring about numerical accuracy in their visions of orbits and celestial spheres.

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Their model of the universe involved the "celestial spheres" creating a kind of harmony as they moved in circles dictated by the same arithmetical relationships as musical harmonies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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