
“The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.”
As quoted by J. J. McEvoy, The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982) p. 372.
Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book IX, Chapter II, Sec. 3
“The head is borne towards the heavens and has two lights, as it were the sun and moon.”
As quoted by J. J. McEvoy, The philosophy of Robert Grosseteste (1982) p. 372.
Note "is less than a quadrant..." is less than 90° by l/30th of 90° or 3°, and is therefore equal to 87°.
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)
“The sun provides the moon with its brightness.”
Fragment in Plutarch De facie in orbe lunae, 929b, as quoted in The Riverside Dictionary of Biography (2005), p. 23
“Gold is precious because it resembles the sun. Silver has the light of the moon.”
the blind man at the Ölfus River
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part I: Iceland's Bell
“Sun is the reason
And the world it will bloom
‘Cause sun lights the sky
And the sun lights the moon”
Sun C79
Song lyrics, Buddha and the Chocolate Box (1974)
p, 125
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon (c. 250 BC)
Source: The Call of the Carpenter (1914), p. 10