Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 37
ing the boundaries of the Milky Way ? 53. How have the stars 30 THE STABS. tion being fancifully named after some object (in mostcases, an animal or mythological personage) which the ar-rangement of the stars composing it was thought to sug-gest. For the most part, however, little or no… … Fig. 17.—Constellation or the Great Beak. The resemblance being in most cases so remote that the effort to tracethe figures in the sky is unsatisfactory and confusing, it has been thoughtbetter to present, in the Celestial Charts at the close of this volume, theboundaries and relative positions of…
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