BOOK VII.
Reading edition
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.