Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 255
lex constellation than either ofthose just mentioned—the Scorpion,—is even betterrepresented by lineation, as sho\NTi in fig 34. It is not,however, with cases so remarkable as these that the i FAKCIED FIGURES AMONG THE STARS. 243 difficulty suggested at the outset is really connected.The instances… … Fig. 34.—The Scorpion. modern map-makers have not in this case departed muchfrom the older dehneations. No one, in fact, who knowswhat a Scorpion is like, could have any doubt as tothe configuration of the body, at least, of the celestialScorpion. So that though such a case illustrates well the 244…
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