Dante and the early astronomers
Dante and the Early Astronomers is a study by M. A. Orr, the English astronomer who wrote as Mrs. John Evershed, composed in part at a mountain observatory in India. The first part tells the story of astronomy from its primitive beginnings through Babylon, Greece, Rome and the Arab world to its return to Europe, with chapters on Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Hipparchus and Ptolemy. The second part examines the astronomy of Dante: what was known in Italy in his time, which books he studied, and how the movements of the sun, moon, stars and planets, eclipses and the order of the spheres appear in the Divine Comedy and his other writings. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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