6 sentences with 'heavens'
Example sentences and phrases with the word heavens and other words derived from it.
• « Thus, the first great discoveries of the Scientific Revolution had to do with astronomy, as scholars began to make their own observations and advance theories to explain what they saw happening in the heavens. »
• « When the astronomers of the Scientific Revolution began to detect irregularities in the heavens, this totally contradicted the way most educated people thought and had thought about the essential features of the universe. »
• « He spent twenty years carefully observing the heavens from his castle on an island near Copenhagen. The greatest significance of Brahe's work for posterity was that it provided a wealth of data for later astronomers, although his central argument turned out to be inaccurate. »
• « In the Aztec stone calendar a central figure represents the sun surrounded by the 20 days of the month, according to Aztec reckoning. There are also symbols of the heavens, the stars, the year and time. »
• « Each god in the Aztec pantheon represented and ruled over an aspect of the natural world, such as the heavens, agriculture, rain, fertility, sacrifice and combat. »