Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)
III. GREEK ASTRONOMY: FIRST PERIOD. B.C. 900 to B.C. 350 1. Homeric Greece; First Notions of Astronomy 51 2. Thales and Anaximander: Earth flat, heaven a series of hemispheres 55 3. Later Flat Earth Systems: the Universe a sphere 60 4. Pythagoras and his Followers: Earth round...
III. GREEK ASTRONOMY: FIRST PERIOD. B.C. 900 to B.C. 350 1. Homeric Greece; First Notions of Astronomy 51 2. Thales and Anaximander: Earth flat, heaven a series of hemispheres 5...
2. PART II.I. POPULAR ASTRONOMY IN ITALY IN DANTE’S TIME. The astronomy of Dante contrasted with Homer and Milton. General feeling for astronomy in his day; some famous astrologers: astron...
3. PART I.FIG. PAGE DANTE STUDYING. _From a fresco by Luca Signorelli at Orvieto_ _Frontispiece_ 1. The Sun’s Path in the Sky at different Seasons 11 2. The Moon at Sunset, soon after New...
4. PART II.A MEDIÆVAL ASTRONOMER. _From a painting by Gerard Dow_ 200 ASTRONOMY. _From a fresco in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria Novella, Florence_ 217 38. The Half-Moon shape of the H...
5. xxvii. 102), and he tells us that Saturn was in Leo, Venus in Pisces,A book which aims at explaining Dante’s _Paradiso_ to young people[509] suggests an original way of reconciling the two passages, for the author gravely asserts that the sun was...
6. xxi. 112-114 that the first day was either March 25, which was believedin the Middle Ages to be the true anniversary of the Crucifixion, or Good Friday, which was kept by the Church as such. March 25 is four days after the date which the Church sti...
7. part I. chapter 2.Three times the stars are invoked to bring justice and righteousness on earth.[731] Through the spheres the elements were evolved out of the first chaotic matter, and everything...