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superlunary
superlunary, a. (n.) (s(j)uːpəˈl(j)uːnərɪ) [f. L. super super- 1 + lūna moon + -ary, after sublunary.] Situated above or beyond the moon; belonging to a higher world, celestial; fig. extravagant: the opposite of sublunary.1614 Purchas Pilgrimage i. ii. (ed. 2) 8 Our sense, which thence receiueth Lig...
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supralunary
supralunary, a. (s(j)uːprəˈl(j)uːnərɪ) [See supra- 1 a and lunary, and cf. sublunary.] = superlunary.1635 Swan Spec. Mundi (1670) 84 The admittance of terrene Exhalations to join their forces towards the effecting of supralunary Comets. a 1656 Hales Gold. Rem. (1673) 276 Certain strange supralunary ...
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Cornelius Gemma
With Brahe, he was one of the few astronomers to identify the Great Comet of 1577 as superlunary. astronomers — most famously Tycho Brahe, but also Helisaeus Roeslin, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel and Michael Mästlin — who identified the comet as superlunary
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Celestial sphere
Aristotle deemed the Sun, Moon, planets and the fixed stars to be perfectly concentric spheres in a superlunary region above the sublunary sphere. Aristotle had asserted that these bodies (in the superlunary region) are perfect and cannot be corrupted by any of the classical elements: fire, water,
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Paul Wittich
However, insofar as it was accepted that comets are superlunary and sphere-busting, whereby solid celestial orbs are impossible and thus intersecting orbits
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Sphere of fire
as the purest of the four elements, fire - and the sphere of fire - stood highest in the ascending sequence of the scala naturae, and closest to the superlunary
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Great Comet of 1577
Helisaeus Roeslin, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Cornelius Gemma, who noted the comet had two tails and Michael Mästlin also identified it as superlunary
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Microcosm–macrocosm analogy
insurmountable difference between the region below the Moon (the sublunary world, consisting of the four elements) and the region above the Moon (the superlunary
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