...far, that earthly sight, 120 If it presume, might err in things too high, And no advantage gain. Wrhat if the sun Be centre to the world, and other stars...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? 125 Their wandring course now high, now low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still,...

...To thee who hast thy dwelling here on Earth. God, to remove his ways from human sense, Placed Heaven from Earth so far, that earthly sight, If it presume,...own Incited, dance about him various rounds? Their wandering course, now high, now .low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In six...

...In Book VII, for instance, the angel Raphael puts the question to Adam: What if the sun Be centre of the World, and other stars, By his attractive virtue...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? [...] and what if, seventh to these The planet Earth, so steadfast though she seem, Insensibly three...

...nicely poised use in Paradise lost when Raphael is answering Adam's questions about astral physics: What if the sun Be centre to the world, and other...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? vm 122 This holds in balance an image of dancing in homage, attracted by virtue, and the suggestion...

...goes on to demonstrate in greater detail this technique of reckoning: . . . What if the sun Be center to the world, and other stars. By his attractive virtue...about him various rounds? Their wand'ring course, now Ligh, now low, then hid. Progressive, retrograde, or standing still. In six thou seest, and what if...

...Heaven could not be farther: "Heav'n is for thee too high / To know what passes there" (VIII. 172-73); "so far, that earthly sight, / If it presume, might err in things too high, /And no ad vantage gain" (VIII. 120-22). The same analogy to food that once invited inquiry now stifles it,...

...partition, and the rest / Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known." Raphael then switches astronomies. What if the sun Be Centre to the World, and other...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? (8.122-25) Nor is earth's "Regent of Day" (7.371) necessarily the only one: other Suns perhaps With...

...Heaven could not be farther: "Heav'n is for thee too high / To know what passes there" (VIII. 172-73); "so far, that earthly sight, / If it presume, might err in things too high, / And no advantage gain' ' (VIII. 120 - 22). The same analogy to food that once invited inquiry now stifles it, "Knowledge is...

...system in response to Adam's peculiarly Renaissance query about the structure of the universe: . . . What if the sun Be Centre to the World, and other...him various rounds? Their wandring course now high, now low, then hid, Progressive, retrograde, or standing still, In six thou seest, and what if sev'nth...

...inescapable conclusion drawn by all who saw the cosmos as heliocentric: What if the sun Be centre to this world, and other stars By his attractive virtue and...their own Incited, dance about him various rounds? . . . If earth industrious of her self fetch day Traveling east, and with her part averse From the...