Book VII
THE MECHANICAL SCIENCES.
(CONTINUED.)
HISTORY
OF
PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY.
DESCEND from heaven, Urania, by that name
If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine
Following, above the Olympian hill I soar,
Above the flight of Pegasean wing.
The meaning, not the name, I call, for thou
Nor of the muses nine, nor on the top
Of old Olympus dwell’st: but heavenly-born,
Before the hills appeared, or fountain flowed,
Thou with Eternal Wisdom didst converse,
Wisdom, thy sister.
Paradise Lost, B. vii.