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" Capricorn; because the sun, at the respective solstices, is situated in the division, or signs of the ecliptic so denominated. Of these signs there are twelve, each occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named... "
Astronomy - Page 194
by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833
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The diarian miscellany: consisting of all the useful and ..., Volume 1

Ladies' diary - 1775 - 430 pages
...made ufe of at this day. Thefe iz images, conftellations, or figns, are placed in the heavens in this order: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces, and are placed in the heaven from weft towards the eaft, or (with us) from the right hand towards...
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The Diarian Miscellany: Consisting of All the Useful and ..., Volume 1

Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1775 - 382 pages
.... ufe of at this day. Thefe ia images, conflellations, or figns, are placed in the heavens in this order:" Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces, and are placed in the heaven from weft towards the eaft, or (with us) from the right hand towards...
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The Complaynt of Scotland: Written in 1548. With a Preliminary Dissertation ...

John Leyden - Complaynt of Scotlande - 1801 - 692 pages
...tuelf partis, and ilk part is callit ane sing, the quhilk zodiac extendis til tuelf singnis, callit Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. Ande euyrie sing is diuidit in xxx degreis. Ther is tua vthir circlis in the spere callit colures....
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A Plain Elementary and Practical System of Natural Experimental Philosophy ...

John Ewing - Astronomy - 1809 - 672 pages
...containing thirty degrees; to which portions they have affixed the following names, in order, viz. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. If two small circles of the globe were supposed to be drawn parallel to the ecliptic at the distance...
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Astronomical and Geographical Essays: Containing a Full and Comprehensive ...

George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 552 pages
...expressive of fulness or completion, it is used in that sense in sacred writ. The signs are named, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. We may imagine as many circles as we please drawn on a globe, parallel to the equator, and these will...
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Astronomical and geographical essays

George Adams - Astronomy - 1812 - 586 pages
...expressive of fulness or completion, it is used in that sense in sacred writ. The signs are named, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. We may imagine as many circles as we please drawn on a globe, parallel to the equator, and these will...
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The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in ...

Abner Alden - English language - 1814 - 222 pages
...with the number of stars in each, according to Mr. Flamstead. FIRST DIVISION, OR ZODIACK. Latin Names. Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces SECOND DIVISION Latin Namet. Uisa minor Ursa major Draco Cepheus Bootes English Names. The Ram The...
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Eight Familiar Lectures on Astronomy, Intended as an Introduction to the ...

William Philipps - 1817 - 292 pages
...Earth. But if we were stationed at the Sun, it is the path which the Earth * In Latin, and in the same order, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. I have, in the following pages, made use of the English nameĞ of the signs, in preference to the Latin,...
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A Grammar of the Teloogoo Language, Commonly Termed the Gentoo, Peculiar to ...

Alexander Duncan Campbell - Telugu language - 1820 - 294 pages
...corresponding sign of the zodiac as explained below. Lunar months. Corresponding sign of the zodiac. Aries. Taurus. Gemini. —-Cancer. Leo. Virgo; •...Sagittarius. • "Capricornus. •- Aquarius^, Pisces. APPENDIX. J5 Tv^ belongs is naine.d twice over ; it is first considered £3$2"-or intercalary, and...
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Conversations on Natural Philosophy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...situated, that the earth in its annual revolution passes directly between them and the sun. Their names are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces ; the whole occupying a complete circle, or broad belt, in the heavens, called the zodiac, (plate VIII....
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