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Explore the evolution of astronomy from Dante to Einstein, as seen through the eyes of trailblazing Victorian astronomer Mary Acworth Evershed 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

Title : Dante and the Early Astronomer: Science, Adventure, and a Victorian Woman Who Opened the Heavens
Author : Tracy Daugherty
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 07, 2021

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