![]() the Stars in their Rampires fought against Sisera it is not spoken of any thingīeyond nature, but the Prophets did observe that the stars in their natural places was Miraculous, and not any Natural Star, how then could the Wise men or Astrologians see the signification of that Star by their Science of Astrologie, where∣as if it reacheth not to the knowledge of future contingen∣sies, then much less to the knowledge of things supernatural or miraculous, and yet they saw that the Stars appearance did signifie the birth of that great King (although I deny not, that the motion of the star in the ninth verse might bee miraculous.) And to come farther, Iudg. And where∣as some have said, That the Star that shewed the birth of Christ, Mat. Canst thou restrain the sweet influence of the Pleiades, or canst thou loose the bonds of Orion? &c. ae) and God himself speaketh of the influence of the Hea∣vens, Iob 38.31.The Firmament sheweth the works of his hands this is not to be understood only of the making of the Canopy of Heaven, for then it had been said the Firmament is the works of his hands (he that liketh not this exposition, let him read Cornelius Gemma de natura Co∣me ![]() is Planetarius, let there not be found among you a Planetarian some have thought by a Planetarian here is meant such a one as did observe the course and influence of the Planets, and from thence gave predictions of future events, that these were unlawful Arts, and ought not to be practised, and therefore have absolutely condemned judici∣all Astrology, but if they be right in this opinion, how then do they answer to Psal. Through it and the forms that it acquires at rest and in movement, the garden expands on the architecture, transfiguring the space in a wonderful world of joy for the senses, almost a mirage, characteristic of a monarch of oriental tastes like Pedro I.THe Third description of a Witch in the text, Deut. The whole room can be seen as well as the metaphor of a pond and the element of nature that inspires both the garden and the Islamic ornamentation is water. The sky represented in the dome, which can be reflected in the water at rest of the pond, is surrounded by an undulating decoration in the plasterwork and tiles of the walls of the room that again alludes to the water, in this case in motion. Cosmos and earth are connected poetically in the palaces of medieval Islam through the water, by reflecting the stars in the pond: when the stars are seen in it becomes the firmament where they are, said an ancient Abbasid poet. ![]() The starry sky that crowns the hall keeps alive the memory of al-Turayya, the Hall of the Pleiades that the king poet al-Mutamid had built in the eleventh century because of his love of astrology and from which nothing remains. In this dazzling space the monarch would receive personalities of the time, such as the historian and traveler Ibn Khaldun, when he came to Seville to visit King Don Pedro as ambassador of Sultan Muhammad V of Granada. Also called Sala de la Media Naranja by the form of its spectacular roof of gilded wood, built as far back as 1427 after the death of Pedro I, it was nevertheless the throne room of this king's palace.
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