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
^? 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-----* / … •--*TJUPTER zOOl^... Sco*pio I *- ^ Fig. 171.—The Zodiac as We Know It Today. Suppose we draw a little circle and call it the Sun, as shownin Fig. 171, and draw an ellipse around it and call it the Earthsorbit, putting on another little circle for the Earth; now sup- 168 THE BOOK OF THE STARS pose…
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