Words at Play : Top 10 Authorisms
Definition:
: the region beyond the Earth's atmosphere in which there are stars and planets
About the Word:
John Milton, who visited Galileo in 1638, was the first writer to ever use the word space, in the sense of outer space, to consider the infinite scope of the universe. As he wrote in book 8 of Paradise Lost:
... this earth a spot, a grain, An atom, with the firmament compared And all her numbered stars that seem to roll Space incomprehensible (for such Their distance argues and their swift return Diurnal).
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