The astronomy of the Bible : an elementary commentary on the astronomical references of Holy Scripture (1909)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 183
ove theirhorizon. Thus at the present time the heavens for an observer inEngland are naturally divided into three parts, as shownin the accompanying diagram. In the north, round the 156 THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE pole-star are a number of constellations that never set;they wheel unceasingly around… … North THE CELESTIAL SPHERE. and the seasons in^which they are visible or are withdrawnfrom sight. Thus we see Orion and the Pleiades andSirius in the winter, not in the summer, but the Scorpionand Sagittarius in the summer. Similarly there is a thirdportion of the heavens which never comes within…
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