In the Carolingian universe:
"The man lay awake for a long time to watch the constellations. They were familiar, the late summer sky of northern Europe up there. But how far away was home? Or had distance any meaning?" (p. 34)
We look for another description of the Milky Way but this time do not find it.
In this universe, those familiar constellations will be not widely separated incandescent bodies but lights embedded in a crystal sphere. See Ancient And Classical Cosmology.
Home is not to be reached by traveling through space or between stars. See Far And Near.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But I see no reason why the Carolingian universe of THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS can't someday advance reached beyond the level reached by Ptolemaic astronomy. My expectation is that the Empire would eventually have its equivalents of Copernicus, Kepler, Brahe, Galileo, etc.
Ad astra! Sean
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