Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 114
exactly overhead. Very near the Pole-star is the constellation of theGreat Bear, with Cassiopeia nearly opposite on theother side of the Little Bear, and other groups be-tween the two, completing the circle. These con-stellations do not, to us who live in the northernhemisphere, rise or set; for… … THE GREAT BEAR 50,000 YEARS AGO. night. It is caused entirely by the earths own motionon her axis. Lower down, or rather further off from the Pole-star, comes another ring of constellations. These in
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