Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 67
us thecontemplation of her inexhaustible treasures. First, let us do homage to the magnificent Orion,most splendid of all the constellations: he advances likea colossal giant, and confronts the Bull. This constellation appears about midnight in No-vember, in the south-eastern Heavens; toward eleven… … Fig. 12.—Orion and his celestial companions. It is indisputably the most striking figure in the sky,and with the Great Bear, the most ancient in history,the first that was noticed: both are referred to in the an-cient texts of China, Chaldea, and Egypt. 48 THE CONSTELLATIONS Eight principal stars…
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