It was curious to see a good strong shadow of an earthly object cast upon so intangible a field as the atmosphere.

The idea of planets has evolved over its history, from the divine wandering stars of antiquity to the earthly objects of the scientific age.

Consequently, each earthly object would have a natural place in the sub-lunar region depending on the relative proportion of the four elements that it contained.

Dr. Zimmerman of the Carnegie Endowment said the process was similar to performing "a rough chemical analysis" of earthly objects from spy satellites several hundred miles away.

Other than wine, he was in charge of earthly objects such as embalming oils, and perfumes.

In conservative spirituality, a symbol partook of the reality of the divine; men and women experienced the sacred in earthly objects; the symbol and the sacred were thus inseparable.

Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

There are actually few analogies for what Mir really resembles, if only because gravity and aerodynamics make it undesirable to build earthly objects as ungainly as Mir.

In the early 17th century, Galileo introduced to physics his experimentations with earthly objects, the dawn of empirical science in Western Europe.

According to Herbert Schutz, most of their gods were "worldly", possessing form and having concrete relation to earthly objects, in contradistinction to the transcendent God of Christianity.