“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!” MayChildrenEyeHeavenStarsBrainWeightShiningSizeSmoke Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)
“The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.” WorldSoulCharacterHouseHeavenCommonPressesFaultsBoundsSizeDeedsDrivenOur ThoughtsSheetsPrintingOur Words Author:Francis Quarles
“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.” WholeEarthMovingLyingHeavenStarsTakenMiddlePositionShapesDistanceSizeAstronomyFixedSpheresCosmologyRatios Book:Ptolemy's Almagest Source: Ptolemy's Almagest