primum mobile in English
noun
1
the central or most important source of motion or action.
He is, in essence, the primum mobile : he wrote Aaron's program, but Aaron now produces its original paintings without Cohen's intervention.
2
(in the medieval version of the Ptolemaic system) an outer sphere supposed to move around the earth in 24 hours, carrying the inner spheres with it.
Sacrobosco's ‘last heaven’ was the sphere of the primum mobile , which meant literally that it was the ‘first moved’, the origin of movement that mechanically transmitted regular motion to all the other spheres.
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1. Aristotle proposes that the Primum Mobile turns as a result of a craving for perfection generated in it by the Prime Mover.