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Line 6: Unlike our world, the universe of ''Celestial Matters'' obeys Ptolemaic astronomy, Aristotelian physics and Chinese Taoist alchemy. The earth is the center of the universe, with all the planets as well as the sun and moon revolving around it, set in a fixed sphere of stars. The [[Alternate History\|timeline of this world also diverged from ours]]; the empire of [[Alexander the Great]] never collapsed, but grew and encompassed half the world. A war has been raging between [[~~Useful Notes/~~Greece\|the Delian League]] and [[~~Useful Notes/~~China\|the Middle Kingdom]] for over a thousand years, both sides possessing different technology, but evenly matched with neither side being able to best the other. The protagonist, a Delian scientist named Aias, is heading Project Sunthief, an ambitious project that might finally bring about an end to the war. If all goes according to plan, the Delian League will fly a ship made from moonrock into space, take a piece of the sun and then use it as a weapon of mass destruction against the Middle Kingdom, obliterating their capital city and winning the war. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== This novel provides examples of: ===~~ * [[Alchemy Is Magic]]: Aristotelian and Chinese Taoist alchemy as well. Taoist alchemy is used by the Middle Kingdom, but the Delian League base their technology off Aristotelian physics and don't really understand how the Middle Kingdom technology works.