Star lore of all ages; a collection of myths, legends, and facts concerning the constellations of the Northern Hemisphere (1911)
Olcott, William Tyler, 1873-1936 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 212
uplication of the asterism ComaBerenices or Berenices Hair. One of the most peculiar features of the arrangement ofthe stars into constellations by the ancients is the factthat many of the figures are repeated, and in almost everycase the two constellations similar in figure are situatedclose… … The MinotaurPainting by George Frederick Watts The Northern Crown 151 there seem to have been two constellations that repre-sented maidens tresses, only separated by the constella-tion Bootes. This fact of reduplication seems to corrobrate the evi-dence that there was a deliberate plan exercised in…
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