The pith of astronomy <without mathematics>; the latest facts and figures as developed by the giant telescopes; (1896)
Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 140
heir mythological deities in the skies,and read the revolving pictures as astarry poem; they colonized the earthwidely, but the heavens completely, andnightly over them marched the grandprocession of their apotheosized divini-ties. The heavens signify much inoreto us, but we retain the old… … THE CONSTELLATIONS 95 pleasure; one can never be alone if oneis familiarly acquainted with the stars. The constellation that is known toalmost every one—young and old—isthe Great Bear, popularly known asthe Dipper, or Plough. The reasons forthis are that it is a circumpolar constel-lation—…
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