How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? dancing on a needle's point occurs in an expository work by the English divine, William Sclater (1575-1626). In "An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians" (1619), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels "did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points." Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the "needle’s point" into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for
Spiny-cheeked honeyeater streaks. The throat is often a light brown or cinnamon, sometimes extending from the beak to the upper breast. The wings feathers are a mottled dark olive brown to grey with white edges. The tail has similar colouring but the tips of the tail feathers are white. The under-tail coverts are white or on some birds, light grey often streaked. There seems to be an amount of variability in the bird’s appearance in many bird of this species. One example is on the Mornington Peninsula located on the eastern coast of Port Phillip Bay in Victoria where the birds have