Nessa Careyの 'Junk DNA' を読んでいます。
But -- if you have access to a telescope, you realise that there is so much more in the firmament than you can detect with the naked eye. There are details like the rings of Saturn, and there are vastly more stars than we could ever imagine.
"firmament" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: The firmament is the sky or heaven.: There are no stars in the firmament.
・Wiktionary: (usually uncountable, literary, poetic, also figurative) The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.: On its far side, on the very horizon of the world, stood purple mountains, so tall and sharp that they bridged the firmaments.
文学的、詩的な単語なのですね。 次の辞書は由来にも触れています。
・Vocabulary.com: The firmament is the curve of the sky, especially if you imagine it as a solid surface. You can describe the sky at night as a firmament shining with stars (if you're feeling poetic).
The word firmament comes from the Latin firmus, or "firm," and this description of the sky as something solid reflects ancient ideas of the way the universe was constructed. The first stargazers imagined the sky as a sphere, and it wasn't until the late 1500s that the idea of an infinite universe was seriously considered. Today the word firmament is mostly literary, used to poetically describe the visual curve of the sky.
But -- if you have access to a telescope, you realise that there is so much more in the firmament than you can detect with the naked eye. There are details like the rings of Saturn, and there are vastly more stars than we could ever imagine.
"firmament" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: The firmament is the sky or heaven.: There are no stars in the firmament.
・Wiktionary: (usually uncountable, literary, poetic, also figurative) The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky.: On its far side, on the very horizon of the world, stood purple mountains, so tall and sharp that they bridged the firmaments.
文学的、詩的な単語なのですね。 次の辞書は由来にも触れています。
・Vocabulary.com: The firmament is the curve of the sky, especially if you imagine it as a solid surface. You can describe the sky at night as a firmament shining with stars (if you're feeling poetic).
The word firmament comes from the Latin firmus, or "firm," and this description of the sky as something solid reflects ancient ideas of the way the universe was constructed. The first stargazers imagined the sky as a sphere, and it wasn't until the late 1500s that the idea of an infinite universe was seriously considered. Today the word firmament is mostly literary, used to poetically describe the visual curve of the sky.
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