Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 268
d to recognise the artistic delineation ofobjects, we cannot be surprised to find that nearly allthose nations who were acquainted with the lion imagineda large leonine figure in the part of the heavens nowcentrally occupied by our modern and most puny Lion^but including portions of Cancer, the… … Fig. 39-—The Original Ship Argo. Argo of our present maps, to get the good ship Argo, asthe ancients must have conceived the constellation.Fig. 39 shows the Ship as I imagine she was originallypictured. The stars which mark her curved poop belong FANCIED FIGURES AMONG THE STARS. 257 in part at…
Astronomy
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