Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 25
nd set, there weresome stars that were always visible—the North Star, forexample. They could use the North Star for a steering-mark by night, then; and so they did. 4 ASTRONOMY. Nearly three thousand years ago (1012 B.C.) Solomonbuilt the Temple at Jerusalem and ornamented it with goldbrought by… … Fig. 1.—The Stars of the Northern Sky. The Pole-star is at the centre of the cut. The Great Bear (the Dipper) isat the left-hand side. The arrows show the direction in which the starsmove round the pole. The mariners compass, which is our guide nowadays, wasnot known in Europe before a.d. 1300,…
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