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Robert Greene's Planetomachia (1585) (1st edition.)

Das, Nandini(Edited by)
Part of the Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity series
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When Planetomachia was published in 1585, Greene himself-always the best advertiser of his own books-promised his readers a perfectly balanced diet of edification and entertainment.

He described his newest offering as an astronomical discourse on the nature and influence of the planets interlaced with 'pleasant and tragical histories,' which one could ostensibly use as a manual to identify various planetary influences on 'natural constitution.'

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Product Details
Routledge
1351902849 / 9781351902847
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
823.3
05/12/2016
English
165 pages
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