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Astronomy in literature

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7 works

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    Virginia Woolf and the discourse of science : the aesthetics of astronomy / Holly Henry.

    | Henry, Holly | Date: 2003
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    The 'Astronomical' chapters of the Ethiopic book of Enoch (72 to 82) / translation and commentary by Otto Neugebauer; with additional notes on the aramaic fragments by Matthew Black.

    | Date: 1981
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    Chaucer's universe / J.D. North.

    | John North | Date: 1988
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    The astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise lost' / by Thomas N. Orchard.

    | Orchard, Thomas N. (Thomas Nathaniel) | Date: 1896
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    Mémoires posthumes de monsieur Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, sur divers sujets, d'astronomie et de mathematiques, avec de nouvelles tables très exactes des moyens mouvemens du soleil et de la lune / [Edited by Paul and Charles Loys de Chéseaux].

    | Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux | Date: 1754
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