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... poems , which were composed during his residence at Horton , a charming rural retreat in Buckinghamshire , where the freshness and varied ... poem which , for sublimity of thought , loftiness of imagi- 82 THE ASTRONOMY OF ' PARADISE LOST '
... poems , which were composed during his residence at Horton , a charming rural retreat in Buckinghamshire , where the freshness and varied ... poem which , for sublimity of thought , loftiness of imagi- 82 THE ASTRONOMY OF ' PARADISE LOST '
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... poetic description than the simple and uncircumscribed arrangement of the universe expressed by the Copernican theory . It also afforded him an opportunity of localising those regions of space in which the chief incidents in his poem ...
... poetic description than the simple and uncircumscribed arrangement of the universe expressed by the Copernican theory . It also afforded him an opportunity of localising those regions of space in which the chief incidents in his poem ...
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... poetic fancy . His observation of natural phenomena , and his keen perception of the pleasing changes which accompany ... poem , and to the natural phe- nomena associated with them : - As becs In springtime when the Sun with Taurus rides ...
... poetic fancy . His observation of natural phenomena , and his keen perception of the pleasing changes which accompany ... poem , and to the natural phe- nomena associated with them : - As becs In springtime when the Sun with Taurus rides ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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