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Dante and the early astronomers (1913)

Evershed, M. A. (Orr) · London : Gall & Inglis · leaf 448

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gfellow). ^ Delia Valle boldly assumes that they were over the same meridian, bya poetical licence, although at Uhie same time the sun was in a differentsign. Dante only mentions the latter fact, he thinks, in order to show PARADISE. 399 A book which aims at explaining Dantes Paradisoto young… … Fig. 50. An impossible interpretation of Par. xxvii. moved a good distance onward, and was then in thesign of Taurus! According to this, a whole month that he was a few degrees north of the sun (Gemini being more northerlythan Aries) ; therefore he could see over the edge, as it were, of the…

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy

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