Dante and the early astronomers
A 1913 London study by Mary Acworth Evershed (M. A. Orr) tracing the astronomy behind Dante's poetry, published by Gall & Inglis for general and scholarly readers. Plates mix photographic reproductions of medieval mappae mundi and fresco allegories with engraved views of Chinese armillary spheres and white-on-black star charts of the old constellation figures.
