The High Firmament: a Survey of Astronomy in English LiteratureLeicester U.P., 1969 - 207 Seiten |
Inhalt
The Medieval Universe I | 1 |
Time and Instruments | 29 |
Astrology | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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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 Gower heavens heliocentric heliocentric hypothesis Herschel ideas important influence interest John John Donne judicial astrology Jupiter Kepler later 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 planets Poems Pope popular position predictions Principia Pseudodoxia Epidemica Ptolemaic reference rotation Royal Society Saturn Scene scientific seems seen seventeenth century Shakespeare Shelley solar system Spenser Stanza stars stellar suggested teenth century telescope Tennyson theory Thomas thought tion Tycho Brahe universe Venus Wilkins William Herschel Wordsworth writers zodiacal sign