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 52
small nebula in the breastof the Crab, containing five or six stars. THE LION. The lion was a symbol of strength and power;therefore he was placed where the sun was in mid-summer^ thereby signifying the intense heat at thattime. The Egyptians were annoyed by lionsduring the heat of the summer, as…
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