heavens
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The work suggests Dante recognized meteors as real geological forces at a time when Aristotelian beliefs still portrayed the heavens as perfect and unchanging.
From Science Daily • May 11, 2026
There was just five points between the teams in Rome last year and it could be another close contest at the Aviva Stadium, especially if the heavens open again.
From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026
Outside a Milan hospital, Umberto Marcucci told reporters he was "thanking the heavens" that his son Manfredi -- one of four Italians being treated at the hospital -- made it out alive.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
“The silent one-clouded heavens drifted on to the sea,” he notes wistfully.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
So if this was a new object it must be located not in the heavens but in the upper atmosphere—it could not be a star at all.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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