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

"We will miss my mother's presence, she would have loved this, but she will be there in spirit, shouting from the heavens," the England captain added.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 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

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