Dante and the Early Astronomer
Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
ISBN: HB: 9780300239898,
Yale University Press,
June 2019
232 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 27 black&white illus.
232 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 27 black&white illus.
In 1910, Mary Acworth Evershed (1867-1949) sat on a hill in southern India staring at the moon as she grappled with apparent mistakes in Dante's "Divine Comedy". Was Dante's astronomy unintelligible? Or was he, for a man of his time and place, as ins...
HB:
19.99 GBP
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