Astronomy, a handy manual for students and others (1918)
Dyson, Frank Watson, Sir, 1868-1939 · New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 26
the simple apparatus possessed by the Chaldeans,Egyptians and Greeks it was far from being an easytask.In the accompanying map, which represents two ANCIENT ASTRONOMY 15 halves of a celestial globe on which all the brighteststars are marked, the position of the Sun is markedfor the first day of… … Diag. VII. ecliptic. This line is an imaginary circle dividingthe sphere into two equal parts. It is a fixed lineamong the stars and goes through the constellationsenumerated in the doggerel lines— i6 ASTRONOMY The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins,And next the Crab, the Lion shines, The Virgin and…
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