up until the 17th century. It was described in the Libros del saber de Astronomia, a Spanish work from 1277 consisting of translations and paraphrases of...

opinion when discussing the causes of planetary motions in Chapter 2 of Astronomia Nova. George Sarton, the author of The History of Science, described Avicenna...

he looked on the rites of Father Liber (Dionysus). The Roman book De astronomia, attributed to Hyginus, also records another myth about Lyra, which said...