Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Lockyer, Winifred James, Mrs., d. 1879 · New York, C. Scribner & co. · leaf 80
kebetter acquaintance with them. Whilst we are tracing linesof indication, let us have patience and finish our short ex-amination of this part of the sky. Take now the oppositeside to the one we have just considered, still near the pole.Let us return to the Great Bear. Prolonging the curve ofthe… … 70 Marvels of the Heaveits, The constellation of Bootes is traced in a pentagonalform. The stars which compose it are of the thirdmagnitude, with the exception of a, which is of thefirst. Tliis is the one nearest the Earth, for it is ofthe small number of those whose distance has been measured.It…
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