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 197
es the point where the equator andecliptic meet, and the days and nights are again of the samelength everywhere on the Earth, just as they were at the spring,or vernal equinox. But this time, when the Sun is in Virgo, it crosses the lineof his journey south about September 21 and so this equinox… … bright, white star you will have reached Virgo, as shown inFig. 177. This big, white, bright star is Spica, and it isthe chief star in Virgo. The ancients always represented Virgo, the Virgin, with asheaf of wheat in one hand and a sickle in the other. TheVirgin and the harvest always went together…
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