
“If only I knew the way to take the sun and moon and make tomorrow wait.”
If Only You Knew
Come Closer (2006)
A Description of Helioscopes, and Some Other Instruments https://books.google.com/books?id=KQtPAAAAcAAJ (1676)
“If only I knew the way to take the sun and moon and make tomorrow wait.”
If Only You Knew
Come Closer (2006)
Contents, Animadversions on the First Part of the Machina Coelestis of the Astronomer Johannes Hevelius https://books.google.com/books?id=KAtPAAAAcAAJ (1674)
"Alexey Voyevoda: Russia’s Vegan Olympian" https://www.peta.org.uk/blog/alexei-voyevoda-russias-vegan-olympian/, interview with PETA (17 February 2014).
“Guess the world needs both sun
And the moon too
Sad with what I have except for you.”
Sad With What I Have
Song lyrics, All Days Are Nights: Songs for Lulu (2010)
“But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun”
At the signing of the United States Constitution, Journal of the Constitutional Convention (17 September 1787).
Constitutional Convention of 1787
Context: Whilst the last members were signing it Doctor Franklin looking towards the President's Chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that Painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art a rising from a setting sun. "I have," said he, "often and often in the course of the Session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting: But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting Sun."
Pt. I, ch. 9
Variant: He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
Source: Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878)
p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)
Variant: Proposition 7. The distance of the sun from the earth is greater than eighteen times, but less than twenty times, the distance of the moon from the earth.