 | John Spencer Hill - 1997 - 224 σελίδες
...the Milky Way (8.577-90); and a celebrated passage on lunar topography alludes to Sidereus Nuncius: the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 1997 - 510 σελίδες
...one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way . . . // Penseroso (p. 28) . . . the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | Brett Zimmerman - 1998 - 174 σελίδες
...the mountains in the moon. Galileo on Fiesole" (115). Compare with the following from Milton's epic: the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. (1:287-91)... | |
 | Stillman Drake - 1999 - 524 σελίδες
...the glass Of Galileo, less assured, observes Imagine lands and regions in the Moon. (V, 261-263) ... the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening, from the top of Fiesole Or in Valdarno. to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. (I. 287-291)... | |
 | Henry Roth - 1998 - 316 σελίδες
...on a line, forgot the burden of his troubles in its beauty. Boy, look at that about Satan's shield: Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb/ Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views . . . Galileo, Tuscan artist. ... If you could only have gone up to Galileo, and said: Hey, listen,... | |
 | Jermain G. Porter - 2000 - 184 σελίδες
...of Galileo, immortalized the discovery of his astronomer friend, comparing Satan's shield to . . . the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan...Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe. To be sure, this likeness to the earth did not prove to be so close as the early... | |
 | Arien Mack - 2001 - 414 σελίδες
...seen through the telescope with a realm of illusion and wonder. He describes Satan's shield, whose "broad circumference" Hung on his shoulders like the...Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan artist views At Ev'ning, from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains on her spotty... | |
 | Richard M. Hogg, Norman Francis Blake, Roger Lass, R. W. Burchfield - 1992 - 812 σελίδες
...taking as exemplary the following description of Satan's shield: (87) the broad circumference I lung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Kv'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in \'aldarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 σελίδες
...moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the Moon, whose Orb Through the Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of the Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry... | |
 | Roy C. Flannagan - 2002 - 144 σελίδες
...) . Milton would later re-create the view through Galileo's telescope in Paradise Lost, describing the Moon, whose Orb Through Optic Glass the Tuscan Artist views At Ev'ning from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, Rivers or Mountains in her spotty... | |
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He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the... 
