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Significados de primum mobile em inglês

An agent that is the cause of all things but does not itself have a cause.

        Uso de primum mobile em inglês
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        The sphere which approaches most nearly to it is called the primum mobile.
        Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the...
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        The ninth was the primum mobile, and inclosing all was the tenth heaven-theEmpyrean.
        History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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        No, I of only I want you to tell us what was the primum mobile in the matter.
        Three Comedies
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        In thirty lines his patron is a river, the primum mobile, a pilot, a victim, the sun, any thing and nothing.
        The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volum...
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        And this is why that first moved-thePrimum Mobile-hassuch extremely rapid motion.
        The Banquet (Il Convito)
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        The ninth, or Primum Mobile, revolved by the Seraphim, is the abode of the moral philosophers.
        National Epics
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        The fixed unit of time is the day which is established by the revolution of the Primum Mobile.
        The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise
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        "The primum mobile of the new system was Motion, in distinction from the rest which marked the old monastic retreats."
        Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages