The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 476
. He whose all-conscious eyes the world behold,The eternal Thunderer sat, enthroned in gold,High heaven the footstool of his feet he makes,And wide beneath him all Olympus shakes. Homer (Popes tr.). The worship of Jove was well-nigh universal, andsurpassed in solemnity that of all other deities.… … Lowell Observatory Plate XXXVII. The Planet Saturn and Its Rings (Showing wisps) Jupiter and Saturn 389 revealed the future to man through signs in the heavens,and the flight of birds. He had many oracles of whichthe most renowned were those of Dodona in Epirusand Ammon in the Libyan Desert. A…
Stars · Constellations · Planets
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