Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 445
it is a 1 Far. xxiii. 29, 30. 396 PARADTSE. sign and more, or something between 30° and 60°,advanced to the west beyond the meridian over whichDante stands. He does not define his own position more exactlythan this, but we may conjecture that he was 45° (asign and a half) east of the sun, since… … Fig. 49. The view six hours later. Par. xxvii. Fig. 49 shows these positions of Dante and the sun,and the consequent limits of his vision. Jerusalem isnear, in comparison with the much more distantsunlit space of ocean in the opposite direction. Weplace the sun in the middle of Aries, because we…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy
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