Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 199
the point where the equator andecliptic meet, and the days and nights are again of the samelength everywhere on the Earth, just as they were at the spring,or vernal equinox. But this time, when the Sun is in Virgo, it crosses the equatorfrom north to south about September 21 and so this equinox 178… … on until it reaches a big, bright, white star you will have reachedVirgo, as shown in Fig. 177. This big, white, bright star is Spica,and it is the chief star in Virgo. The ancients always represented Virgo, the Virgin, with asheaf of wheat in one hand and a sickle in the other. TheVirgin and the…
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