sublunary world

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But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well.

From New York Times • May 7, 2018

The sublunary world, the world this side of the moon, is the world of generation and corruption—the rest of the universe has existed unchanging from all eternity.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

In the Middle Ages the heavens had been compared to clockwork; now the same principle of regularity was, it was claimed, to be discovered in the sublunary world.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The mathematization of the sublunary world begins not with Galileo but with Alberti, not in the seventeenth century but in the fifteenth.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton