The book of stars; being a simple explanation of the stars and their uses to boy life, written to conform to the tests of the Boy scouts (1915)
Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 186
, and this line is called the ecliptic. The waythe ancients thought it was and the way it really looks to us isshown in Eig. 170. The ancients called this apparent path of the Sun, Moonand planets with the stars for a background the zodiac, so it isnot such a horrible specimen after all. 166 THE… … ^? Fig. 170.—The Zodiac as Invented by the Ancients. path, or orbit, of its own, so that what we call the zodiac isreally a belt a little wider than the path of the Sun caused bythe Earth traveling round it. \C.A!^*J-----* /
Astronomy · Stars
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