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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Primum mobile (0.00956 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: primum mobile
primum mobile
n : a self-caused agent that is the cause of all things;
“God is
the first cause” [syn:
first cause,
prime mover]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Primum mobile
Primum mobile
\Pri“mum mob”i*le\ [L., first cause of motion.]
(Astron.)
In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving
concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of
which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres
with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west.
See
Crystalline heavens, under
Crystalline.
[1913 Webster]
The motions of the greatest persons in a government
ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under
primum mobile. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
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