Orr, M. A. (Mary Acworth) · London and Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis · leaf 347
sky, and makes of them two newconstellations in the form of two crowns. The stars arethese : fifteen from different parts of the sky, whichare so brilliant that they shine through air denseenough to quench lesser orbs; the Wain, which neversets in our sky; and the mouth of the horn whose tipis the… … Fig. 42. Ursa Minor as a Horn. Par. xiii. 10. Ursa Minor is aptly compared to a horn, the widemouth of which is formed by its two bright stars Betaand Gamma,^ while the narrow end is Alpha, the PoleStar. These twenty-four bright stars we must thenimagine to group themselves into two…
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 · Astronomy, Ancient · Astronomy, Medieval · Early maps
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