the heavens
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Rendered in ultra-realistic Precisionist style, his steel-and-concrete grain elevator dwarfs its surroundings, while crisscrossing rays of intense sunlight link it to the heavens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
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
His depiction of the heavens is just one of many threads and themes that run through his decades of work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 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
Yet no such object could exist: Brahe knew his way around the heavens, and it was a fundamental principle of Aristotelian philosophy that there could be no change in them.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
