A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 33
e that the Pleiades are actually in * Many a night from yonder ivied casement, ere 1 went to rest.Did I look on great Orion, sloping slowly to the west.Many a night I saw the Pleiads, rising thro the mellow shade,Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Tennyson: Lockslev Hall.… … LARGER STARS IN CLUSTER OF THE PLEIADES {For view at culminalion, the side to readers right should be held downward)From a photograph taken at the Yerkes Observatory prove a good beginning in astronomy and will do more to make clear the apparent motionof the stars than any amount of theoretic…
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