A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)
Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 27
ed by a resemblance of the variousstar groups to familiar objects, because in mostcases they have no resemblance whatever to the object named, but each of the old groups was identified withobjects typical of what was continually taking place either in the heavens or on the earth; in particularwith… … Fig OPHIUCHrS AND HERCULES. * In the poem of Aratos this constellation is welldescribed :— Like a toiling man, revolvesA form. Of it can no one clearly speak,Nor to what toil he is attached ; but, simply, Kneeler they call him. Labouring on his knees,Like one who sinks he seems ; from both his…
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