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The wonders of the heavens (1871)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 101

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Bull.Seven bright stars are distinguished; two of them, a and /3,are of the first magnitude; the other five are of the second;a and 7 mark the shoulders, x ^^^ ^^8^^ ^^^^y ^ ^^^ 1^^foot; (^, g, I mark the belt; below this line is a luminoustrain of three stars close together, this is the Sword.… … Fi^. 20.—Orion, Aldebarau, Sirius. For more clearness, we give the arrangement of the prin-cipal stars of this magnificent asterism. Orion is on the continuation of the line which joins thePole Star to Capella. The four stars, a, 7, B, x, occupy theangles of a great quadrilateral; the three others…

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