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When we go to explore, we do it as a globe.
Human shapes, interferences, troubles, and joys were all as if they were not, and there seemed to be on the shaded hemisphere of the globe no sentient being save himself; he could fancy them all gone round to the sunny side.
An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call
That bides the spheres become articulate.
It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.
An inflated balloon
impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured.
Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.
The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.
WE APPROXIMATE THE BIRD'S BODY BY A SPHERE OF RADIUS 5CM, said Sib, I had no idea aerodynamics was so entertaining
-a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
A square object was visible at a greater distance than a round object of the same area.
What about the Symmetry?!
Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls.
I'll say this for the celestial spheres, though: great acoustics. We're talking Platonic ideals here. Pythagoras would have smashed his corny little harp across his knee if he'd heard it.
Never mind," Leo said. "I'm pretty sure pi is, uh, 3.1415 blah blah blah. The number goes on forever, but the sphere has only five rings, so that should be enough, if I'm right."
"And if you're not?" Frank asked.
"Well, then, Leo fall down, go boom. Let's find out!
He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.
The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.
The Earth orbits round tables.
A plane of cheekbone,
The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing
The Earth is round but everything on it is flat.
Everything is octopusied.
Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.
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round hat, set upon it sideways, looked
This notary was a little man, completely round, round in every part. His head looked like a ball nailed onto another ball, supported by two legs that were so tiny and so short that they also closely resembled balls.
I have no name for what circles so perfectly.
The ball is round so that the game can change direction
I'm a square that wants to become a circle.
dark-gray cylinder,
The Port Elizabeth ground is more of a circle than an oval. It's long and square.
In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence
("Roundness")
A cube or sphere has the characteristics of its form or shape, that is why one calls it a sphere or cube. Just as a cat is what we call a cat by its body type and physiology and its form delineates its interaction with its environment.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.
iconoclastically.
Thanks to the oval I have discovered the meaning of the horizontal and the vertical.
corner, an empty shell that is merely
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
Intricately plotted, beautifully paced, The Music of the Spheres is an elegant historical novel rich in detail, at times Dickensian in its description of London. Elizabeth Redfern has made an exciting debut.
A miniature model of the solar system, contained within a glass dome. It was a beautiful thing; each of the moons glimmered in place around the nine planets and the fiery sun,
Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.
In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong
THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM
[all snap flags]
Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.
Shape of eternal light, by my divine existence, it should shine in your decent thoughts.
Like zero direction
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
If you're born round, you don't come out square
Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.
Solid and dense as his own, a nose ring and angelbites.
A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.
My eye-balls are glass,
my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask.
The things ... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
His largeness lorded over his chair like a giant unripened pumpkin rolling onto an egg cup.
The world is round.
Leave women to find their sphere.
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere.
The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere.
On the video monitor, they saw Ted Fielding slap the polished sphere and shout, "Open! Open Sesame! Open up, you son of a bitch!"
The sphere did not respond.
Tonight I see no spheres, but project myself
and gaze back, an important trick
because the goal is to be on both sides of the poem,
shuttling between the you and I.
These are the sports, the offthrows, of the universe instead of the species; these are the weird children of the lust of the spheres.
of a musket ball embedded in his
Some men think the Earth is round, others think it flat; it is a matter capable of question. But, if it is flat, will the King's command make it round? And, if it is round, will the King's command flatten it?
The Earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides, is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.
One hemisphere was a giant bull's-eye, a series of concentric rings where solid rock had once flowed in kilometer-high ripples under some ancient hammer blow from space.
Once upon a time, people thought earth was flat-shaped.
Now I'm ready to perceive universe won't be as we think.
We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.
Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
Involved in my own entrails and a crust Turning a pitted surface towards a space, I am a world that watches through a sky And is persuaded by mirrors To regard its being as an external shell, One of a universe of stars and faces.
a square black hole that yawned darkly beneath a stone archway.
Crazy's favorite shape is a circle.
We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of the orbs, of a kind that is not possible to obtain in any other way.
The most straight seems curved.
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.
...words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.
Man is all symmetrie,
Full of proportions, one limbe to another,
And all to all the world besides:
Each part may call the farthest, brother:
For head with foot hath privite amitie,
And both with moons and tides.
Round still, but that's fine.
Feeling good outside and in.
Maybe I'm not thin,
but skinny isn't perfect.
The perfect size is happy.
But I think that I have already been moving too long in a sphere which is not my own. Flying fishes can hold out for a time in the air, but soon they must splash back into the water; allow me, too, to paddle in my own element.
O the joy of my spirit
it is uncaged
it darts like lightning!
It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have thousands of globes and all time.
When one made love to zero
spheres embraced their arches
and prime numbers caught their breath ...
It is not only impolitic and injudicious to even attempt to think ouside a box with a linearly skewed, acutely constrained and partial view. I would rather choose to think iside an infinitesimal pinfold but in 3D.
God built the world, but he did not know it was round.
The full ethereal round, Infinite worlds disclosing to the view, Shines out intensely keen; and all one cope Of starry glitter glows from pole to pole. THE
Perched on top of the pointed nose of the
Yes, right, and the earth is flat," I replied. Stupidly, I said it out loud. Everyone else at the table looked at me, taken aback.
"No, Gwenny, the earth is a globe," Caroline kindly told me. "I couldn't believe it at first, either. But apparently it flies through the universe at lightning speed.
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye of a magnifying glass seem a Lilliputian frieze of psychedelic silhouettes.
Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
Find the earth within.
The sun is the width of a human foot.
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!
[B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?
resembling a stylized lotus. Inside the circle, in proportions