Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 266
si, the astronomers of our own timeretaining only the former name for this star,—the brightone adorning the head of Andromeda. Even in our timeit has been found impossible properly to separatethe older constellations from each other, so that tothis day the Scorpion remains entangled with the legsof… … PAKCIED PlGUkES AMONG THE STARS. 255 chus to divide the Serpent, or the Serpent to divideOphiuchus. In the next case, that of the Great Lion, we have stillfurther to depart from the modern configuration of theconstellation. No one can imagine the remotest resem-blance between any part of a lion and…
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