Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 387
k and placed herself betweenus and the sun (for the moon at Passover time wasalways full, and therefore opposite the sun), so that thesuns light should not come down (to us on the earth);others, that the sun hid itself, for a correspondingeclipse was seen by Spaniards and Indians as well asJews.^… … eclipsing SunFig. 44. Lunar and Solar Eclipses. Therefore the sun would be visible to all, though onlyjust rising in India and just setting in Spain ;^ but itcould not have been an eclipse that darkened it to allat the same time. This passage shows that Dante was entirely orthodoxand conservative…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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