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The constellations and how to find them; 13 maps, showing the position of the constellations in the sky during each month of any year. A popular and simple guide to a knowledge of the starry heavens, with introduction, general explanations, and a separate description of each map (1887)

Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · Boston, Mass., Silver, Burdett & Co · leaf 57

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o the right of Polaris. to it Webb, in his xiption of the shield of Achilles, on which there was engraved— The Heaven, the Sea,The Sun that rests not, and the moon full-orbd.There, also, all the stars which round aboutAs with a radiant frontlet bind the skies,The Pleiades and Hyades, and the… … DESCRIPTION OF MAP XII. llRSA MAJOR is near the North; that part of this constellation which is called the Plough nowbeing between the North and the North-West, and at a fair elevation above the horizon.Below the tail of the Bear is Canes Venatici; above it is Draco, and above the Dragonis Ursa…

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