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 (1890)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York D. Appleton · leaf 87
y a sea-monster. Thepoor girls only offense was that her mother, Cassiopeia, hadboasted for her that she was fairer than the sea-beauty,Atergatis, and for this Neptune had decreed that all theland of the Ethiopians should be drowned and destroyedunless Andromeda was delivered up as a sacrifice to… … Map 17. THE STARS OF AUTUMN. 77 joy. Here was an adventure just to his liking, and besides,unlike his previous adventures, it involved the fate of a beau-tiful woman with whom he was already in love. Could hesave her ? Well, wouldnt he ! The sea-monster might fright-en a kingdom full of Ethiops,…
Astronomy -- Observers' manuals
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