“And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."”
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet and a pioneer of the Renaissance, is hailed as the father of Italian literature. Born in 1265 and died on September 14, 1321, Dante is best known for his epic poem, 'The Divine Comedy,' which is not only a great literary work but also a profound religious and philosophical treatise. more
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