How to pronounce “primum mobile”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (astronomy, historical) The outermost celestial sphere of the heavens in Ptolemaic astronomy, which was believed to cause all the inner spheres to rotate.
• (chiefly philosophy, theology) The prime mover or first cause (“an initial cause from which all other causes and effects follow”).
• (by extension) The person or thing that is the main impetus for some action; a driving force.

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