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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 64

An illustration from 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, leaf 64
eswas the son of the nymph Calisto, whom Juno, in one of hercustomary fits of jealousy, turned into a bear. Bootes, whohad become a famous hunter, one day roused a bear fromher lair, and, not knowing that it was his mother, was aboutto kill her, when Jupiter came to the rescue and snatchedthem both… … Berenices Hair. 54: ASTRONOMY WITH AN OPERA-GLASS. Twas when the solemn dead of night came on,When bright Calisto, with her shining son,Now half the circle round the pole had run. Bootes is not specially interesting for our purposes, ex-cept for the splendor of Arcturus. This star has possessed…

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