Astronomy with an opera-glass: a popular introduction to the study of the starry heavens with the simplest of optical instruments, with maps and directions to facilitate the recognition of the constellations and the principal stars visible to the naked eye; (1888)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 52
a number of pretty pairs may be found there. Sagittarius stands in the old star-maps as a centaur, half-horse-half-man, facing the west, with drawn bow, and arrowpointed at the Scorpion. Next let us pass to the double constellation adjoiningScorpio and Sagittarius on the north—Ophiuchus and… … Map 9. ing serpent with his hands. The head of the serpent isunder the Northern Crown, and its tail ends over the star-gemmed region that we have just described, called Sobies-kis Shield. Ophiuchus stands, as figured in Flamsteeds Atlas, upon the back of the Scorpion, holding the serpentwith one…
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