The High Firmament: a Survey of Astronomy in English LiteratureLeicester U.P., 1969 - 207 strán (strany) |
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... reflection of the Earth's continents — ran into difficulties when the extensive voyages of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries showed that the supposed reflection re- mained the same when seen from any part of the Earth . The problem ...
... reflection of the Earth's continents — ran into difficulties when the extensive voyages of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries showed that the supposed reflection re- mained the same when seen from any part of the Earth . The problem ...
Strana 26
... reflected sun- light , but a small amount was due to the planet itself . By tincture or reflection they augment Thir small peculiar.39 Oddly enough , a part of the persistent belief in the intrinsic luminosity of planets was due to ...
... reflected sun- light , but a small amount was due to the planet itself . By tincture or reflection they augment Thir small peculiar.39 Oddly enough , a part of the persistent belief in the intrinsic luminosity of planets was due to ...
Strana 29
... reflection of the importance that the subject then had in everyday life . This was partly a result of the close bond between medieval astronomy and theology ; partly , however , it reflects the immediate practical benefits which derived ...
... reflection of the importance that the subject then had in everyday life . This was partly a result of the close bond between medieval astronomy and theology ; partly , however , it reflects the immediate practical benefits which derived ...
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The Medieval Universe I | 1 |
Time and Instruments | 29 |
Astrology | 43 |
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The High Firmament: a Survey of Astronomy in English Literature Arthur Jack Meadows Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1969 |
The High Firmament: a Survey of Astronomy in English Literature Arthur Jack Meadows Zobrazenie úryvkov - 1969 |
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A. B. Grosart accepted antiquity appeared argument Aries Aristotelian astrology astronomical Bacon became belief Book VII Canto celestial bodies centre Chapter Chaucer Coleridge comets concept constellation contemporary Copernican Copernicus decay Descartes Donne Dryden early Earth ecliptic eighteenth century emphasis empyreal English example firmament Galileo heavens heliocentric heliocentric hypothesis Herschel ideas important influence interest John John Donne judicial astrology Jupiter Kepler later longitude lunar major Mars mathematics medieval Mephistophilis Mercury meteors Milky Milton Moon motion move natural philosophers natural theology neo-Platonic Newton Newtonian night nineteenth century Novum Organum observations orbits Paradise Lost period planetary planets Poems Pope popular position predictions Pseudodoxia Epidemica Ptolemaic reference rotation Royal Society Saturn Scene scientific seems seen seventeenth century Shakespeare Shelley solar system Spenser sphere Stanza stars stellar suggested teenth century telescope Tennyson theory Thomas thought tion Tycho Brahe universe Venus Wilkins William Herschel Wordsworth writers zodiacal sign