 The strongest affection and utmost zeal" is reserved for the promotion of "the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects." Those are the proper subjects of astronomy, "the discipline which deals with the universe's God-like circular movements,...  Polish Music since Szymanowski - Page 263by Adrian Thomas - 2008Limited preview - About this book
 | Gerald James Holton - 1986 - 372 pages
...which deals with the universe's God-like circular movements, and which explains its whole appearance. What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty?" This vision provided him, Copernicus says, "extraordinary intellectual pleasure," even as "the Godly... | |
 | Dafydd Gibbon - 1996 - 1278 pages
...which deals with the universe's God-like circular movements, and which explains its whole appearance. What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty?" This vision provided him, Copernicus says, "extraordinary intellectual pleasure," even as "the Godly... | |
 | Stephen G. Brush - 1996 - 150 pages
...as the causes of the other phenomena in the sky, and which, in short, explains its whole appearance. What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty? ... If then the value of the arts is judged by the subject matter which they treat, that art will be... | |
 | Adrian Thomas - 1997 - 210 pages
...Polyphonic Music', Ruch muzyczny (1958), no. 19, 2-6. 15 'Powiem paristwu szczerze . . .', 45. omnia?' (What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty?).16 The purifying effect of this Renaissance homophony, the quotation from Copernicus, and... | |
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