Astronomy for beginners in thirty-two lessons (1885)
Fellowes, Francis. [from old catalog] · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 109
WINTER CONSTELLATIONS. 93 earth, sympathizing with the dog in the sky, go mad with burning rage. 8. On the picture you see the manner in which the stars of this constellation are imagined to In fact, they might as well be im- form a dog. … agined to form a wind-mill. Orion, that great hunter, having been placed in the sky, it was very natural to imagine his dogs and his game around him. Thus, in front stands the Bull, at his feet the Hare, and behind him his dogs ; of
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