Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 23
un passed in this backward motion,for it is evident that this path would mark out a circle in theheavens. Astronomers have done this, and they call this path orline, which has a fixed position among the stars, the Ecliptic, orsuns path. On the next page we represent the ecliptic, and a certainspace… … represents the ecliptic and the whole space or belt is called theZodiac. The ancients divided the zodiac into twelve equal parts,and gave them names, indicative of the peculiar employment ofthat season of the year, when the sun happened to be in any oneof them. For example, the sun, in the…
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