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Dante and the early astronomers (1914)

Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 106

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#I* *# … Fig. 18. Earth and sun according to Heracleides. In the upper figure it is day, in the lower, night, on the inhabited side of Earth.The sun is on the equator, as at the time of equinox. taken, to reach the truth that Earth was merely rotatingon her axis once in a day, and so causing the…

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps

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