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The Universe as Pictured in Milton's Paradise Lost

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The Universe as Pictured in Milton's Paradise Lost

An Illustrated Study for Personal and Class Use (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Universe as Pictured in Milton's Paradise Lost: An Illustrated Study for Personal and Class Use Although Copernicus had finished his life work sixty-eight years before the birth Of Milton, the traditional geocentric conception Of the universe was the only one generally held and taught at the latter date. Newton was as yet unborn, Bacon's Novum Organon yet unwritten. Kepler, illustrious improver and promoter Of the Copernican doctrine, was still engaged upon his astronomic problems; but even he to his dying day followed tradition SO far as to believe in the existence Of a solid Sphere, two German miles in thickness, in which all the nonplanetary stars were im movably fixed. Milton was twenty-five years Of age when Galileo was obliged to make upon his knees his historic abjuration Of doctrine at Rome. Eight years after this our poet was in Florence and Visited Galileo, but, so far as known, without making profession Of faith in the new heliocentric teaching. In that generation the mediaeval conception Of the world was far more familiar to the peoples Of Europe than any later one is to - day. And it was wonderfully complete and satisfying to the reason. In it the world - whole had a known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Release date NZ
February 17th, 2019
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
15 illustrations
Imprint
Forgotten Books
Pages
84
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Dimensions
152x229x4
ISBN-13
9781331930051
Product ID
23858026

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