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 192
fferentthings. Long ago, when the zodiac was invented, the constella-tion of Aries, the Earn, was in the first of the 12 spaces and heand the sign of this space were of course at that time the same. Owing to a peculiar motion of the Earth, called precession,the constellations of the zodiac have… … Aquarius, the Water Man.—A constellation of autumn:Aquarius is always pictured in the almanacs as pouring waterfrom a pitcher. All the stars of this constellation are faint and scattered 174 THE BOOK OF THE STARS and none of them are in a line with, the ecliptic. Aquarius gothis name from the…
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