The geography of the heavens, and class book of astronomy: (1853)
Burritt, Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale), 1794-1838, Mattison, Hiram, 1811-1868, Dick, Thomas, 1774-1857. [from old catalog] · New York, F. J. Huntington [etc.] · leaf 283
r it must be observed, that the same signsalways keep in the, same points of the ecliptic, vnthout re-gard to the place of the constellations. Hence it becomesnecessary to have new plates engraved for celestial globesand maps, at least once in 50 years, in order to exhibit trulythe altered position… … To explain this by a figure: Suppose the Sun to have been in conjunctionwith a 6xed star at S. in the first degree of Taurus, (the fecomi si«Ti of theecliptic.) 340 years before the birth of our Saviour, or about the 17th irearefAlexander the Great: then having made 2140 revolutions through the…
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