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The eighth heaven of the Peripatetic system; also called the “Firmament.”
“The Crystal Heaven is this, whose rigour guides
And binds the starry sphere.”
Camoens: Lusiad, bk. x.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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