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Dante and the early astronomers (1913)

Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 340

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astronomer could take them to be a newly-foundconstellation, but might not some unscientific travellerlike Marco Polo have brought a vague report of theirposition ? To this we might reply that Dante never says hisfour stars were in the form of a Cross; that there hadto be four to represent the four… … HERCULES PEGASUS PISCES AQUARIUS * CAPRICORNUS Fomalhaut CETUS PA VO Achetnar ^tL Sf ^ Pole. CENTAUR «« SOUTHERN CROSS ^ J^

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy

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