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Sigismondi, Costantino |
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Phoebi Claro: explaining the ancient sky in a medieval poetry with the Secchi manual of sidereal astronomy |
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Archaeoastronomy was already existant during the lifetime of Angelo Secchi, after Stonehenge, started to be interpreted in an astronomical context. A medieval poetic text Phoebi Claro, of the tenth century, is examined using the positional astronomy tools presented by Secchi. The determination of day of the year, of the dawn described in Phoebi Claro, is presented. The day so found is around 11 of November, at the end of the liturgical year, in the feast of St. Martin (40 days before winter solstice), the end of commercial year, just before the Advent in preparation to Christmas, the real Christian Sunrise. |
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