the 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
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
Outside a Milan hospital, Umberto Marcucci told reporters he was "thanking the heavens" that his son Manfredi -- one of four Italians being treated at the hospital -- made it out alive.
From Barron's • Jan. 2, 2026
Off-spinner Graeme Swann took five wickets in the second innings to bowl England to victory just before the heavens opened on the fifth day.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
But, try as they might, the philosophers could not get such models to fit what actually happens in the heavens.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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