 | David H. Levy - Nature - 2001 - 372 pages
...geocentric or a heliocentric universe when he answered, in Book VIII, this question posed by Adam:6 What if the Sun Be Centre to the World, and other...him various rounds? Their wandring course now high, now low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In six thou seest, and what if sev'nth... | |
 | Alan W. Hirshfeld - Science - 2002 - 340 pages
...University Office of Communications. 3 What If the ¡Sun Center to the World? . . .What if the Sun Be Center to the World, and other Stars By his attractive virtue...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds'? — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VIII, 1697 H rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single... | |
 | Roy Eriksen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 224 pages
...iteration of the words "earth" and "high[est]." In lines 120-21 we learn that God has "placed heaven from earth so far, that earthly sight, / If it presume, might err in things too high" (italics added), where the key words are echoed in the final line: "not of earth only but of highest... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...Earth. God to remove his ways from human sense, Plac'd Heav'n from Earth so far, that earthly sight, *20 If it presume, might err in things too high, And no...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? 125 Thir wandring course now high, now low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In... | |
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What if the sun Be centre to the world ; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds... 
