Dante and the early astronomers

Dante Alighieri · en
Thanks are also due to several members of the staff of this
observatory: Mr. Sitarama Aiyar made some calculations, Mr. Nagarajan
Aiyar projected the map facing page 295, Mr. Krishna Aiyar prepared
photographs of several illustrations, and Mr. Krishnasawmy typed the
greater part of the copy for press. Mr. Raymond Beazley, the Trustees
of the British Museum, and Messrs Macmillan, have kindly allowed me to
reproduce illustrations from their publications.

To all these I offer grateful thanks.

                                               M. A. EVERSHED.

    KODAIKANAL OBSERVATORY,
         SOUTH INDIA.
             _October 1913._

                               THIS BOOK
                            IS DEDICATED TO
                                 LUCY.




LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES.


    Alfraganus, Elementa Astronomica. Arabicè et Latinè,
          opera Jacobi Golii (Amsterdam, 1669).
    Angelitti, Sulla Data del Viaggio Dantesco.
         ”     Sull’ Anno della Visione Dantesca.
    Antonelli, Sulle Dottrine Astronomiche della Divina Commedia (1865).
    Aratus, The Phainomena. Translation by R. Brown.
    Aristotle, Four Books on the Heavens. Greek and German, with notes,
          by C. Prantl.
    Beazley, Dawn of Modern Geography.
    Berry, History of Astronomy.
    Blake, Astronomical Myths, based on Flammarion’s History of the
          Heavens.
    Boffito et Melzi Eril, Almanach Dantis Aligherii (1908).
    Brunetto Latini, Li Livres dou Trésor. (Chabaille, Paris, 1863).
    Budge, Wallis, Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities,
          British Museum, 1900.
    Cantelli, La Conoscenza dei Tempi nel Viaggio Dantesco.
    Cicero, De Senectute.
       ”    Somnium Scipionis.
    Cornewall Lewis, Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the Ancients.
    Coulton, From St. Francis to Dante.
    Delambre, Histoire de l’Astronomie Ancienne.
        ”     Histoire de l’Astronomie du Moyen Age.
    Della Valle, Il Senso Geografico-Astronomico della Divina Commedia
          (1869).
    Dreyer, Planetary Systems from Thales to Kepler.
    Epping and Strassmeier, Astronomisches aus Babylon.
    Gardner, Dante’s Ten Heavens.
    Gruppe, Die Kosmischen Systeme der Griechen.
    Ideler, Ursprung und Bedeutung der Sternnamen.
    Imbriani, Studi Danteschi.
    King, History of Sumer and Accad.
    Lockyer, Dawn of Astronomy.
    Lubin, Dante e gli Astronomi Italiani.
    Maunder, The Oldest Astronomy. (_Journal of the British
          Astronomical Association_).
    Moore, Dante and his Biographers.
      ”    Studies in Dante. 3 vols.
      ”    Time references in the Divina Commedia.
    Parker, Mrs. Langloh, Australian Fairy Tales.
    Plato, The Republic. Translation by Jowett.
      ”    The Timaeus.       ”           ”
    Plutarch, On the Face in the Moon. Translation by Prickard.
    Pradeau, Key to the Time-Allusions of Dante.
    Rashdall, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages.