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Dante and the early astronomers (1914)

Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 311

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Zenith … Horizon. Fig. 39. Sun, moon, and zenith.To illustrate Par. xxix. 1-6. (See p. 265). In the first figure the sun and moon are balanced, as it were, being at equal distancesfrom the zenith : in the second, a few minutes later, by the rising of the sun arid thesetting of the moon, the balance is…

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

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