"The number of the dead long exceedeth all that shall live. The night of time far surpasseth the day, and who knows wh…"

"At the equinox when the earth was veiled in a late rain, wreathed with wet poppies, waiting spring The ocean swelled …"

"I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the C…"

"It is worth quoting Anthony Grafton’s summation of Scaliger’s assault on the prisca theologia presumptions of his con…"

"The first Graeco-Egyptian astrologists did not invent the discipline they claimed to teach the Hellenic world. They u…"

"In making his own calculation, however, Christopher Columbus preferred the values given by the medieval Persian geogr…"

"You climb a mountain situated close to the sea or a level plain, and then observe the setting of the sun and find out…"

"The gods living in the north at the Meru mountain (i.e., at the north pole) see the Sun, after it has risen, for half…"

"When it is sunrise at Lanka, it is sunset at Siddhapura, midday at Yavakoti, and midnight at Romaka."

"On any day calculate the longitude of the Sun and the Moon for sunrise or sunset without applying the longitude corre…"