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2nd Mag Admiral Smyth Andromeda Aquarius Aquila astronomers AURIGA Boötes Boston Philad Louisville bright star called Cancer Canis Minor Capella Capricornus Cassiopeia Cepheus Cetus Coma Berenices constellation Cygnus Dipper east Ecliptic Equator Eridanus figure formed Gemini head HERCULES horizon line Horizon of Boston Horizon of London Horizon of NOrleans hour HYDRA last month lat of Boston latitude of Philad Leo Minor Lion Little Bear London Boston Philad London Eng Louisville Philad Boston marked Milky motion nearly NOrleans Louisville O'for occupies Ois the point Ophiuchus Orion Orleans Pegasus Perseus Philad Boston London Philad Star PISCES placed Pleiades Plough point overhead pole Pole-star position seen seven stars shown Sirius Sky at 10PM Solstitial Colure SOUTHERN MAP Southern Sky STAR MAPS Star of 1st Star of 2nd star-groups Starof Stars Lately stellation TAURUS telescope URSA MAJOR URSA MINOR Virgo WESTERN MAP Western Sky zodiacal
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Page 27 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, Or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
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Page 70 - My mood is changed, for it fell at a time of year When the face of night is fair on the dewy downs, And the shining daffodil dies, and the Charioteer And starry Gemini hang like glorious crowns Over Orion's grave low down in the west...
Page 213 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Page 213 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 227 - With threatening head, and calls the Twins to rise; They clasp for fear, and mutually embrace, And next the Twins with an unsteady pace Bright Cancer rolls; then Leo shakes his mane And following Virgo calms his rage again.
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Page 177 - Round he surveyed, — and well might, where he stood So high above the circling' canopy Of night's extended shade, — from eastern point Of Libra, to the fleecy star which bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas Beyond the horizon.
Page 174 - Of the first epithet, which he call "cacophonous and barbaric," he remarks that "no poring into the black-letter versions of the Almagest, El Battani, Ibn Yxinis, and other authorities, enables one to form any rational conjecture as to the misreading, miswriting, or misapplication, in which so strange a metamorphosis could have originated." Of Rotanev he simply says that this barbarous term " putteth derivation and etymology at defiance.
Page 158 - ... he had ever seen before. It was every moment changing into some of the colours of the rainbow, as yellow, orange, purple, and red ; though it was generally white when it was at some distance from the vapours of the horizon.