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 195
e Bulls face and thePleiades are in his shoulder. Gemini, the Twins.—It is easy to see why the ancientscalled this constellation of the zodiac the Twins, for its twochief stars, Castor and Pollux, are very close together and whileof different colors they are of about the same brightness. 176 THE… … Gemini is an important constellation, as the Sun reachesits most northern point in it in summer; this is called the sum-mer solstice, and takes place about June 21. When the Sunhas reached this point it casts the shortest shadow at mid-dayand it seems to stand still for a few days before it takes…
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