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Milton's Textbook of Astronomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Allan H. Gilbert
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Extract

In his tractate Of Education Milton gives astronomy as one of the subjects that the properly educated boy should study. He would first have his pupils “learn in any modern author the use of the globes,” and then having mastered the elements of the subject, proceed to the reading not only of poems abounding in astronomy, but also of those wholly astronomical, such as the Astronomicon of Manilius and the Phaenomena of Aratus.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , June 1923 , pp. 297 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1923

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References

1 See Gilbert, “Pierre Davity: His Geography and Its Use by Milton,” The Geographical Review, VII. 322 ff.

2 La Grande Encyclopédie. Biographie Universelle gives the date of the last edition as 1699. There were also a large number of editions in other languages than Latin. During the two centuries and a half between its composition and 1472 it was widely circulated in manuscript.

3 Omitted from the ed. of 1620.

4 Likewise omitted from the ed. of 1620.

5 Omitted from the edition of 1620. This and the preface by Martinus are of later date than anything in the edition of 1620.

6 P. L. III. 483.

7 Purbach died in 1461. His book was first printed by his pupil Regiomontanus (Chalmer's General Biographical Dict.) about 1473. Later editions were numerous.

8 P. L. VIII. 82-4.

9 Pp. 19-20.

10 P. 68.

11 Alfraganius, the Arabic astronomer.

12 By a printer's error pp. 177-8 are omitted.

13 1477-1558 (?).

14 P. 182. Cf. P. L. I. 598, where we read that the eclipse with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

15 P.L. III. 481-3.

16 P.L. III. 483.

17 Page 2.

18 Page 4 et al.

19 It is used by Galileo, See “Milton and Galileo,” Studies in Philology (Univ. of N. C.), April, 1922, p. 167.

20 Naturam non pati senium, last line.

21 P.L. VIII. 70-82. Following lines are quoted on p. 299, supra. Cf. P.L. VIII. 15 (quoted on p. 306, infra).

22 The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, 1.2.

23 P. 28.

24 Pp. 35-6.

25 P. 26.

26 P.L. IV. 605; V. 166; VII. 104, 366; VIII. 519; IX. 49; XI. 588.

27 Pp. 97-8.

28 P. 175.

29 P. L. II. 664-6.

30 P. 68.

31 P. L. III. 726-31. Cf. VII. 377.

32 Milton and Galileo, op. cit., p. 161.

33 Pp. 13-14.

34 P. L. VIII. 15-27. Cf. Dante, Paradiso XXII. 135.

35 P. 46.

36 P. R. IV. 70-1.

37 P. L. X. 668-87.

38 P. 168.