Primum Mobile

This is why the Primum Mobile has the swiftest movement; for because of the most fervent desire that each part of the ninth heaven has to be conjoined with every part of that divinest, tranquil heaven, to which it is contiguous, it revolves beneath it with such desire that its velocity is almost incomprehensible.

Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006

When Beatrice at the summit of Purgatory utters prophetic words which "soar" far beyond Dante's power to envision her meaning, she explains that his limitations are those of "that school which you have followed," whose teachings are as far from the divine way as the earth from the Primum Mobile

Dante Alighieri Wetherbee, Winthrop 2006

The other band, Primum Mobile, who I've played with before, went first at 8:30.

Laccoon AAR badger 2005

We'll be playing with Primum Mobile as part of a 919noise night.

[film] Hotel Rwanda badger 2005

Through non-space and non-time, he plunged toward union with the Primum Mobile; the seat that encompassed all that Is, Was, Would Be, Had Been, Could Be and Might Be.

The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990

Each of the spheres after the first, the Primum Mobile, has its own movement, but is also affected by the others; hence the (as it seemed) erratic movements of the planets.

Notes: Divine Poems. Grierson, Herbert J.C Herbert J.C. Grierson 1921

They held the universe to be a large suit of clothes which invests everything; that the earth is invested by the air; the air is invested by the stars; and the stars are invested by the Primum Mobile.

A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706