# Dante and the early astronomers

Author: Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth), 1867-1949

Genre: Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/64489

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dante+and+the+early+astronomers+Orr&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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, Earth in Motion 66

## Chapters

- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/4/index.md)
- [xxi. 112-114 that the first day was either March 25, which was believed](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/6/index.md)
- [part I. chapter 2.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/7/index.md)
- [xxvii. 102), and he tells us that Saturn was in Leo, Venus in Pisces,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/5/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-and-the-early-astronomers-64489/chapters/2/index.md)