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* “Sphaera cujus centrum ubique, circumferentia nullibi.” of Hermes* pleaseth me beyond all the metaphysical definitions of divines.
Religio Medici 2007
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In his lengthy treatment of the original earth, Varenius followed the Sphaera mundi (1620) of Joseph Blancanus, though he also introduced ideas that had come into thinking during the intervening decades.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARJORIE HOPE NICOLSON 1968
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See Boll, _Sphaera_ (_passim_), and his note on the lists of animals assigned to the planets, in Roscher, _Lexikon Myth. _, s.v. "Planeten,"
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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_Hendecasyllabon Liber_ and _Iambon Liber_; three books of _Epigrammata_; a book of miscellaneous verse; _De Sphaera_ (in five books), suggested by the poem of Joannes de Sacrobosco, and intended as a defence of the Ptolemaic theory against the new Copernican view.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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_De Sphaera_, and Ptolemy's _De Planetarum Hypothesibus_ (1620).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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He owed his reputation as an astronomer chiefly to his astronomical textbook "De Sphaera," which was used at many universities for several centuries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The first printed copy dates from 1472, when it appeared at Ferrara, Italy, under the title: "Johannis de Sacrobusto seu Bosco anglici Sphaera mundi."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Two editions of his work, _De Sphaera_, that I have seen, one of Venice, 1499, and one of Paris, 1527, give the circumference of the earth as 20,428 miles, but an edition published at Wittenberg in
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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"Sphaera cujus centrum ubique, circumferentia nullibus," was said of Mercury, that messenger of the gods who marshalled reluctant spirits to the Underworld; and for Mercury we may write Life with
The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885
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Wippenberg presents: Sphaera - Front (Original Mix) [HQ]
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