The wonders of the heavens, being a popular view of astronomy, including a full illustration of the mechanism of the heavens; embracing the sun, moon, and stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars, double stars, the constellations, the galaxy, or milky-way, the zodiacal light, aurora borealis, or norhtern lights, meteors, clouds, falling stars, aërolites, &c (1837)
Bradford, Duncan. [from old catalog] · Boston, American stationers company · leaf 45
onomers use a hieroglyphic or symbol for thispurpose ; thus °f signifies the Ram ; 8 the Bull;n the Twins; s the Crab ; SI the Lion; ri^ theVirgin ; ^i the Balance ; n the Scorpion; t theArcher ; vj the Capricorn ; xx; the Water-Bearer ;X the Fishes. These symbols were probablyadopted from some… … Thus the horns of the ram have quite a similarityin appearance to the symbol °f appropriated to thatsign in the zodiac. The same resemblance may betraced between the head of the bull; the twins asa whole ; the beam of the balance ; the archersweapon ; the whole of the Capricorn ; the streamof the…
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