Geographic Location

Name: Primum Mobile

Alternate Name: Crystalline sphere

Source: classical

Nature: mythical

Description: Ninth sphere in Dante's cosmology, which contains the eight lower spheres and moves them along in its daily revolution around the Earth. The Primum Mobile is the physical origin of life, motion, and time in the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic universe. Primum mobile means the first moving thing.

Images:

Botticelli, Sandro

Botticelli, Angelic choirs Botticelli, Creation of angels