“The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.”
Robert Grosseteste (1175–1253) English bishop and philosopher
As quoted by J. J. McEvoy, The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982) p. 372.
“The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.”
"The Use of the Moon", p. 178.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition
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