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 30
ly noted, is also typical of the principal event which took place in ancientEgypt.J As the sun advanced into the constellation of the Water-God (Aquarius), its influence produced thesteady rise of the river, until by the time he had reached that part of his course which is marked by the… … Fig. .3.—Constellation Figures in an MS. of the Second Century a.d. imagination, but an actual fact, which undoubtedly took place in Egypt at the time we mention, and thesurrounding constellations, instead of contradicting the hypothesis, only lend their aid to confirm it in astriking manner. Near…
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