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Tony Harrison: Thomas Campey and the Copernican System

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Thomas Campey and the Copernican System

The Loiners, London: London Magazine Editions, 1970

15-16

Relationship to Classical text Campey’s ‘huge black tome’ gives ‘Latin titles for his own decline' (specifically Tabes dorsalis, a degenerative spinal condition), whilst Angels chant ‘ Angina–a, Angina Pectoris ’, as though it were church-Latin.