Scientists studied the newly discovered sublunary band of debris orbiting between the Earth and the Moon.

He dismissed the sublunary as distractions from his spiritual quest.

The poet wrote lovingly about the sublunaries, celebrating the small, mortal beauties of everyday life.

Medieval philosophers debated whether the laws governing change in the sublunary sphere differed fundamentally from those of the heavens.

Philosophers long debated whether human passions belong among the sublunary spheres or the celestial order.