7 sentences with 'spheres'
Example sentences and phrases with the word spheres and other words derived from it.
• « Ptolemy, who lived centuries after Aristotle, elaborated on the Aristotelian system and claimed that there was not one, but about eighty spheres, one inside the other, which explained the fact that the different celestial bodies did not all move in the same direction and at the same speed. »
• « Copernicus retained the idea of the crystal spheres, and also used Ptolemy's calculations in his own work, but his was nevertheless the first work to propose the concept of a heliocentric universe. »
• « Its king, Vittorio Emanuele II, was of the former royal house of Savoy, and the kingdom retained independence after the Napoleonic period because it served as a useful buffer state between the French and Austrian spheres of influence. »
• « In the context of the Victorian era, most Europeans believed in the doctrine of gender relations known as "separate spheres". In separate spheres, it was argued that men and women had useful and necessary roles to play in society, but these roles were distinct from each other. »
• « At the Congress, representatives of the European states, joined by the United States and the Ottoman Empire, divided Africa into spheres of influence and conquest. No Africans were present at the meeting. »
• « It was either American aid or Soviet power that guided the post-war reconstruction of Europe, and both superpowers proved more than capable of making policy decisions for the countries within their respective spheres of influence. »
• « The other two spheres, at either end of the four satellites we see, are two other moons of Saturn: Rhea, the first from the left, and Dione, the first from the right. Next to Thetis, the fabulous reddish Titan. »