> [1] "The horned Moon, with one bright star/Within the nether tip." -
> Within the moon's crescent is the rest of the moon, in shadow. It would
> therefore block out the light from any star behind it. This is the most
> notorious scientific blunder in poetry.
Peter,
How about Tennyson's "ringing grooves of change"? Or is that a
technological rather than a scientific blunder?
Robin
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