primum mobile

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The innermost was the central and unmoving earth; outward from the earth were the spheres of the moon, of the five known planets, of the sun and the zodiac, and finally the primum mobile.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seraphs, the most powerful angels, kept the primum mobile moving; cherubs moved the zodiac, thrones the sphere of Saturn, and so on down to the moon, which fell under the care of common angels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nay, from the Spirit of Jesus, living in the heart by faith, and dwelling in it by love, as the first wheel of this motion, the primum mobile.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Here it clearly refers to the primum mobile; it often applies to the whole expanse of the heavens.

From Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Grimm, Florence M.