Dante and the Early Astronomers
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Dante's picture of the heavens is read here against the astronomy of the writers who came before him. M. A. Orr, who signs the preface as Mrs. Evershed, wrote it at the Kodaikanal Observatory in South India, with her husband's criticism and her sister's help on the index. Her list of authorities runs from Aristotle and Aratus to Alfraganus, Cicero's dream of Scipio and Brunetto Latini, with Babylonian sources among them. The preface is dated October 1913, and the volume includes a map and several illustrations.
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