The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost

Author: Orchard Thomas Nathaniel

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781318965014

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Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution
Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution

Author: Dennis Danielson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1107033608

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This volume brings John Milton's Paradise Lost into dialogue with the challenges of cosmology and the world of Galileo, whom Milton met and admired: a universe encompassing space travel, an earth that participates vibrantly in the cosmic dance, and stars that are "world[s] / Of destined habitation." Milton's bold depiction of our universe as merely a small part of a larger multiverse allows the removal of hell from the center of the earth to a location in the primordial abyss. In this wide-ranging work, Dennis Danielson lucidly unfolds early modern cosmological debates, engaging not only Galileo but also Copernicus, Tycho, Kepler, and the English Copernicans, thus placing Milton at a rich crossroads of epic poetry and the history of science.

The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'

Author: Thomas Orchard

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2015-03-13

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781508856863

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Many able and cultured writers have delighted to expatiate on the beauties of Milton's 'Paradise Lost, ' and to linger with admiration over the lofty utterances expressed in his poem. Though conscious of his inability to do justice to the sublimest of poets and the noblest of sciences, the author has ventured to contribute to Miltonic literature a work which he hopes will prove to be of an interesting and instructive character. Perhaps the choicest passages in the poem are associated with astronomical allusion, and it is chiefly to the exposition and illustration of these that this volume is devoted