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A MEDIÆVAL ASTRONOMER. _From a painting by Gerard Dow_ 200
ASTRONOMY. _From a fresco in the Spanish Chapel
of Santa Maria Novella, Florence_ 217
38. The Half-Moon shape of the Habitable Earth (Ristoro) 247
CLIMATE MAP OF ABOUT A.D. 1110. _Reproduced from
Beazley’s Dawn of Modern Geography_ 248
39. Sun, Moon, and zenith. To illustrate _Par._ xxix 1-6 267
40. The Zodiac and the Months 276
41. The Ram on the Ecliptic. _From the Cosmi Historia
of Robert Flud_, A.D. 1612.
_Reproduced from Brown’s Aratos._ 279
MAP OF STARS VISIBLE BEFORE DAWN IN PURGATORY 295
42. Ursa Minor as a Horn. _Par._ xiii. 10 299
43. The Sun at the Equinox, seen from the poles and
the equator. _Conv._ III. v. 327
44. Lunar and Solar Eclipses 339
MAP OF THE WORLD BY HEINRICH OF MAINZ,
about A.D. 1110. _Reproduced from Beazley’s
Dawn of Modern Geography_ 344
45. The Universe of Dante 355
46. The Signs of the Zodiac at sunrise from the Mountain
of Purgatory 375
47. Northern Slope of the Mountain of Purgatory 377
48. Dante’s View of Earth from the stars. _Par._ xxii. 395
49. do. Six hours later. _Par._ xxvii. 396
50. An impossible interpretation of _Par._ xxvii. 399
51. The Rising Sun at the spring equinox. _Par._ i. 39 403
52. The Moon’s Epicycle and Deferent 449
53. Comparative sizes of the Sun and his satellites 490

ABBREVIATED TITLES OF BOOKS USED IN THE TEXT.

Dante’s Works:—
_Inf._ Inferno.
_Purg._ Purgatorio.
_Par._ Paradiso.
_Canz._ Canzone.
_Son._ Sonetto.
_Ball._ Ballata.
_Ecl._ Eclogue.
_V. N._ Vita Nuova.
_Conv._ Convivio.
_De Mon._ De Monarchia.
_V. E._ De Vulgari Eloquentia.
_Ep._ Epistola.
_Qu._ Quæstio de Aqua et Terra.

_El. Ast._ Elementa Astronomica (Alfraganus).
_Comp. del Mond._ Della Composizione del Mondo (Ristoro).

DANTE AND THE EARLY ASTRONOMERS.

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