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 193
n: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 Bomans, who called him the Watermanbecause when the… … Fig. 175.—Constellations of Aries the Ram. Pisces, the Fishes.—This constellation is now in that partof the zodiac whose sign is °p (Aries). It is not an interestingconstellation to look at with the naked eye, for its stars arefaint and they stream out in two lines over nearly two signsof the…
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