His predecessor Maimonides had claimed that no valid inference can be drawn from the nature of the sublunar sphere to that of the superlunar sphere. From Wordnik.com. [Gersonides] Reference
Thanks to it certain events in the sky — the outburst of new stars (the Novae of 1572 and 1604) and the passing of comets, introducing change in the immutable superlunar heaven — created a sensation and excited discussions. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference
There was the duality, unacceptable to a rigorous mind, of the incorruptible superlunar spheres and of the impure sublunar sphere of the Earth subject to change, this very Earth which paradoxically formed the center of the whole system, i.e., usurped what was, for the spontaneous imagina - tion, the place of honor. From Wordnik.com. [COSMIC IMAGES] Reference
Maimonides does not regard the sublunar and superlunar worlds as independent of each other. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
Latin, French, Technical, Slang, American, or Lunar, or altogether superlunar, transcendental, and drawn from the eternal nowhere -- he uses it with a courage which might blast an academy of lexicographers into a. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Reviews] Reference
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