celestial sphere
天球,天体,天球仪,天界
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- : the imaginary spherical shell formed by the sky, usually represented as an infinite sphere, the center of which is a given observer's position.
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To replicate how humans perceive the celestial sphere, a team of researchers considered how the eye might travel randomly across this night sky.
In the fourth and third centuries BCE, Plato, Aristotle, and other philosophers went all in on the notion that the planets and stars were embedded in eternally rotating celestial spheres.
The digital dating sphere can prove tricky, and bruising, for the trans user.
This may be precisely the point: that fiction at its best is a sphere of suspended belief as much as suspended disbelief.
In almost every sphere of life, the trend is to trade in ownership for access.
At that point, a sphere lit up, resembling the landing of the UFO in E.T., and the overheard lights descended on the stage.
Why tolerate toxicity in a powerful sphere of modern life that has the potential to—and does—benefit so many?
Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.
If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.
The belated moon stole up from its lair, hovered above the sky-line, a gaudy orange sphere in the haze of smoke.
But in 1811 he was recalled to Paris to receive orders before starting on a new sphere of duty.
Hence in the house, the sphere of the Genius is no longer the hearth but the marriage-bed (lectus genialis).