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 52
ion of the equi-noxes they have retrograded nearly a whole sign, andare now in the constellations Pisces and Virgo. Hence,while the vernal equinox, sometimes called the Green-wich of the Sky, the passage of the sun through whichbetokens the opening of spring, is in the sign Aries, thissign now… … Copyright by Underwood and Underwood, N. Y. Plate III. The Long Slant Passage of the Great Pyramid General Remarks 29 ought to have visited all the constellations of the zodiac,and the signs should have backed entirely round thecircle of the ecliptic. Another effect of this gyratory motion of the…
Stars · Constellations · Planets
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