Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 595
only about a enough to cut off about half that suns light, andmust travel at such a rate that the partial eclipseswhich it causes last nearly seven hours at a timefrom beginning to end. The discovery that Algol changes in brightnessin this strange way is commonly supposed to be- 566 THE STARS IN… … Medusa, borne by Perseus, which was supposed topossess the power of turning to stone every livingcreature that looked upon it. The Arabian nameAlgol is the same as Al-ghul, the monster ordemon. And to this star most evil influences wereattributed by astrologers. All this seems to showthat the old…
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