Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 257
in Italy, belonging tosuch different ranks of life, show what an immenseimportance was attached to their art by the generalpublic. Yet we shall be greatly mistaken if we thinkthat it was only to acquire skill in this fascinatingpursuit that men thronged to hear Cecco lecture, orpored over Latin… … ASTRONOMY. From a fresco in the Spanish Chapel of Sa^ita Maria Novella, Florence.[To face p. -217.] IN DANTES TIME, 217 to understand the world around them and the sky-above their heads. It would be a shame, writes one, to live in a houseand not know how it is built or what shape it has,never to…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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