...to'ward the shore ; his pond'roua shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the...

...nearly half a century after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope : — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.'1 A few days were spent by Galileo in rapidly reviewing the successive wonders...

...nearly half a century after the invention, some of the wonders thus laid open by the telescope: — " The moon, whose orb, Through optic glass, the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesol'S Or in Valdamo, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe." A few days...

...vis-a-vis the moon: his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round. Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views. (1.284-88) The second was to look at Satan himself vis-a-vis the Sun: There lands the Fiend, a spot...

...xxi. 27. 1069-76. Rev. xxi. 23, xxii. 5. 1070. spotty: cp. Milton, 'Paradise Lost,' I. 287-90: — ' The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands." 1071. Perhaps the poet wrote '& also ]w-as nis neuernyjt,' ie 'And also where is never night, why should...

...moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Fv'ning from the lop of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty...

...Paradise Lost as "the Tuscan artist" who views the moon through his "glaz'd Optic tube" "at Ev'ning from the top of Fesole,/ Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands/ Rivers or Mountains in her spotty Globe" (I. 287-91). Milton's spokesperson, the angel Raphael, though, is non-committal...

...Poesy,' in John Dryden, ed, Keith Walker, Oxford, 1987, 80. Consider also these lines from Milton: The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb has gripped the imagination in recent years. The nuances of fourteenth-century thought rightly induce...

...back on seventy-five stirring years, but never again through his marvellous telescope view the moon At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe." In the invigorating sunshine of Italian culture there were ugly shadows. Excepting...

...an artistic context. Though the most important exchanges between painters and astronomers involved the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe,3 very little of the other celestial discoveries made in the early modern period...