(religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky especially:.Euery man cannot, with Archimedes, make a heauen of brasse.#* 1600, Thomas Nashe, Summers Last Will :.# (obsolete) A model displaying the movement of the celestial bodies, an orrery.Fellow-believers.fed the birds of heaven with the carcases of pious and reverend Church-men.#* 1660, George Mackenzie, Religio Stoici, II 44:.It droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen #* ( William Shakespeare), ( The comicall Historie of the Merchant of Venice), IV i:.Everie]].Countrie, by the nature of the place, the climate of the Heaven, and the influence of the starres hath certaine [[virtues, vertues.#* 1581, George Pettie translating Stefano Guazzo, Ciuile Conuersation, I 26:.The bestis]] of the erthe.the [[fowls, foulis of heuene.#* ( w, Wycliffe's Bible), Job XXXV 11:.# (obsolete) The near sky in which weather, flying animals, appear (obsolete) the atmosphere the climate.
Above is Heaven, Below are Suzhou and Hangzhou.#* 2006, Peter Carroll translating a maxim of the Southern Song dynasty in Between Heaven and Modernity: Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895–1937 :.In an infinite.universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.Stars and constellations some fixed for the Ornament of Heaven.#* 1656, Thomas Stanley, The History of Philosophy, II v 74:.are carried in 24 houres from East to West. #* 1625, Nathanæl Carpenter, Geography delineated forth in two bookes, I iv 77:.What obscured light the heauens did grant.#* ( William Shakespeare), ( The Comedie of Errors), I i 66:.The ninth is called the second moueable or Christall heauen ', The tenth is called the first moueable, and the eleuenth is called the [[empyreal, Emperiall ' heauen, where God and his Angels are said to dwell. In ascending orderly vpwardes]].The first is the Spheare of the Moone.The seuenth the Spheare of Saturne, The eight the Spheare of the fixed Starres, commonly called the firmament.The ordinaunce]].made such a great noyse and [[thundering, thunderyng that it seemed the heaven would have fallen.
#* 1585, Thomas Washington translating Nicholas de Nicolay, The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay, I vi 4:.#* 1535, ( Coverdale Bible), ( Ecclesiastes) III 1:.# (dated, now usually plural) The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move the firmament the celestial spheres.
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