The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
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About this eBook
- Author
- Orchard, Thomas Nathaniel
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
- Subject
- Astronomy in literature
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 28434
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28434
- Release Date
- March 29, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Transcriber’s Note — THE ASTRONOMY OF MILTON’S ‘PARADISE LOST’ — THE ASTRONOMY OF MILTON’S ‘PARADISE LOST’ — BY THOMAS N. ORCHARD, M.D. MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION — LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY 1896 All rights reserved
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS — PLATES — IN TEXT
- 4.PREFACE — THE ASTRONOMY OF MILTON’S ‘PARADISE LOST’
- 5.CHAPTER I — A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY
- 6.CHAPTER II — ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 7.CHAPTER III — MILTON’S ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE
- 8.CHAPTER IV — MILTON AND GALILEO
- 9.CHAPTER V — THE SEASONS
- 10.CHAPTER VI — THE STARRY HEAVENS
- 11.CHAPTER VII — THE STARRY HEAVENS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII — DESCRIPTION OF CELESTIAL OBJECTS MENTIONED IN ‘PARADISE LOST’ — THE SUN — THE MOON — THE PLANET EARTH [14] — THE PLANET HESPERUS — THE PLEIADES — THE GALAXY — COMETS — FALLING STARS
- 13.CHAPTER IX — MILTON’S IMAGINATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY — FOOTNOTES:
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