Celestial scenery, or, The Wonders of the planetary system displayed : illustrating the perfections of deity and a plurality of worlds (1845)
Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857, Parker, E. S., former owner. DSI, David H. DeVorkin Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries) DSI · Philadelphia : Published by Edward C. Biddle · leaf 77
ned to the plane of the earths orbit in anangle of about five degrees; and it is only when the fullmoon or change happens at or near the nodes that an eclipsecan take place, because the sun, moon, and earth are then,nearly in the same plane; at all other times of full or change,the shadow of the… … 360 degrees, which have received the following names :—Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scor-pio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. Each ofthese signs is divided into thirty equal parts, called degrees ;each degree into sixty parts, or minutes ; each minute intosixty…
Astronomy
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