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The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost', by
Thomas Orchard This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
Author: Thomas Orchard
Release Date: March 29, 2009 [EBook #28434]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Greek letters used to identify stars (Bayer designation), are replaced with the full name of the Greek letter, e.g. Alpha Centauri.
The single Greek word in the text is transliterated within braces, {komê}.
Minor punctuation and hyphenation inconsistencies have been corrected.
The spelling "Bernices" for "Berenices" has been retained throughout.
The following minor typographical errors have been corrected: p75: "establish" changed to "established" p99: "Firmanent" changed to "Firmament" p111: "they thoughts" changed to "thy thoughts" p120: "suen" changed to "seuen" p134: "consequenc" changed to "consequence" p146: "geographieal" changed to "geographical" p167: "Lyrae" changed to "Lyræ" for consistency p286: Removed redundant word "degrees" following the degree symbol
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The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard