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... system or constitution of that inte- rior as it is conceived by Milton and assumed throughout the poem . Let us ... Ptolemaic , " because it had been set forth in its main features by the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria , who lived in the ...
... system or constitution of that inte- rior as it is conceived by Milton and assumed throughout the poem . Let us ... Ptolemaic , " because it had been set forth in its main features by the astronomer Ptolemy of Alexandria , who lived in the ...
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... Ptolemaic system , so completed up to the final number of Ten Spheres , may be called rather the " Alphonsine System , " as having been adopted and taught by the famous King and astronomer , Alphonso X. of Castille ( 1252-1284 ) . It ...
... Ptolemaic system , so completed up to the final number of Ten Spheres , may be called rather the " Alphonsine System , " as having been adopted and taught by the famous King and astronomer , Alphonso X. of Castille ( 1252-1284 ) . It ...
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... system which Galileo had impugned . His friends and literary asso- ciates , the Smectymnuans , at all events , in ... Ptolemaic ; and , though the drift of the Angel's reply is that the question is an abstruse one , and that it is of no great ...
... system which Galileo had impugned . His friends and literary asso- ciates , the Smectymnuans , at all events , in ... Ptolemaic ; and , though the drift of the Angel's reply is that the question is an abstruse one , and that it is of no great ...
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... guage assumes the same astronomical system . Where the words Orb and Sphere occur , for example , they almost invariably , —not quite invariably , -mean Orb or Sphere in the Ptolemaic sense . Yet , to make all safe 42 INTRODUCTION TO.
... guage assumes the same astronomical system . Where the words Orb and Sphere occur , for example , they almost invariably , —not quite invariably , -mean Orb or Sphere in the Ptolemaic sense . Yet , to make all safe 42 INTRODUCTION TO.
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