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Dante and the early astronomers (1914)

Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 73

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Fig. 10. The Scorpion.From a boundary stone (now in thaBritish Museum) set up in the reign ofNebuchadnezzar I., king of Babylonia,about 1100 B.C. … Fig. 11. The Goat, with Fishes Scales.From a Babylonian boundary stone. A Scorpion with immense claws, and a Goat withfishes scales appear several times on monuments atleast as old as 1000 B.C. and it is very probable,although this fact alone would not prove it, that theywere then used as…

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

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