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Dante and the early astronomers (1913)

Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 444

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. xxiii. 10-12. 2 See Par. iv. 34-39. ^ Purg. xxix. 12 and 34. ■* Region. PARADISE. 395 is likened to a sun among the starry company of Hissaints.^ When this glorious company has at length vanished,she bids him look down once more, this time that hemay realise how he has been revolving with… … $^ % <? Fig. 48. Dantes first view of Earth from the Stars. Par. xxii. (see p. 397). imagined, the shadow of night sweeping westwardover the globe. The Atlantic Ocean, where Ulyssessailed beyond Gades, is all in daylight, and so is theMediterranean, but the sun is setting over Jerusalem,for he…

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