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

“Thank heavens I never came near the guy,” Buffett said.

From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026

There were howls to the heavens when he was dismissed in both Brisbane and Adelaide.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

During the abolitionist movement and the war itself, the North Star became a practical element of enslaved African-Americans’ looking to the heavens, a beacon of freedom and hope.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Philosophy tells us that the universe consists of concentric spheres; the actual patterns made by the planets as they move through the heavens is a subject for astronomy, which is a sub-branch of mathematics.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton