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| has gloss | eng: The celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and others. In these celestial models the stars and planets are carried around by being embedded in rotating spheres made of an aetherial transparent fifth element (quintessence), like jewels set in orbs. |
| lexicalization | eng: celestial spheres |
| instance of | c/Early scientific cosmologies |
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| media:img | Kepler Celestial Spheres.jpg |
| media:img | Oresme Spheres crop.jpg |
| media:img | Paradiso Canto 31.jpg |
| media:img | PeuerbachSuperioribus2.png |
| media:img | Ptolemaicsystem-small.png |
| media:img | ThomasDiggesmap.JPG |
| media:img | Tychonian system.svg |
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