The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard

THE ASTRONOMY
OF
MILTON’S ‘PARADISE LOST’

BY
THOMAS N. ORCHARD, M.D.
MEMBER OF THE BRITISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable.

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
LONDON, NEW YORK, AND BOMBAY
1896
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CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I.]	[A Short Historical Sketch of Astronomy]	[1]
[II.]	[Astronomy in the Seventeenth Century]	[45]
[III.]	[Milton’s Astronomical Knowledge]	[81]
[IV.]	[Milton and Galileo]	[113]
[V.]	[The Seasons]	[140]
[VI.]	[The Starry Heavens]	[152]
[VII.]	[The Starry Heavens]	[200]
[VIII.]	[Description of Celestial Objects Mentioned in ‘Paradise Lost’]	[244]
[IX.]	[Milton’s Imaginative and Descriptive Astronomy]	[306]

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