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[[Image:Drawing by Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728 - 1799) .jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Cenotaph for Newton]]'' ([[1784]]) by French architect [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]]]] [[Image:Drawing by Étienne-Louis Boullée (1728 - 1799) .jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Cenotaph for Newton]]'' ([[1784]]) by French architect [[Étienne-Louis Boullée]]]]
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# A regular three-dimensional object in which every [[cross-section]] is a [[circle]]; the figure described by the revolution of a semi-circle about its diameter. # A regular three-dimensional object in which every [[cross-section]] is a [[circle]]; the figure described by the revolution of a semi-circle about its diameter.

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Spheres (Peter Sloterdijk)
  1. A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure described by the revolution of a semi-circle about its diameter.
  2. A spherical object; a globe or ball.
  3. The apparent outer limit of space, the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow globe within which celestial bodies appear to be embedded.
  4. Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to rotate around the Earth, and which carried the heavenly bodies; there were originally believed to be eight, and later nine and ten; friction between them was thought to cause a harmonious sound (the music of the spheres).
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, vol. 1 p. 153:
      It is more simplicitie to teach our children [...] [t]he knowledge of the starres, and the motion of the eighth spheare, before their owne.
  5. An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
  6. The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.

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