Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 449
fellow). ^ Delia Valle boldly assumes that they were over the same meridian, bya poetical licence, although at the same time the sun was in a differentsign. Dante only mentions the latter fact, lie thinks, in order to sliow 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, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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