Astronomical Recreations: Or, Sketches of the Relative Position and Mythological History of the Constellations ... Illustrated by a Series of Coloured Plates |
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Page x
... Greek or Italic letters have no reference to size. This method of naming the stars by letters was the invention of John Bayer, a native of Germany, who introduced it about the year 1608. But besides this letter name, many of the ...
... Greek or Italic letters have no reference to size. This method of naming the stars by letters was the invention of John Bayer, a native of Germany, who introduced it about the year 1608. But besides this letter name, many of the ...
Page viii
... Greeks and the Romans having displaced many of the Chaldean and Egyptian constella- tions , and substituted in their room such figures as had some reference to their own history or fable , all accounts which can now be given of the ...
... Greeks and the Romans having displaced many of the Chaldean and Egyptian constella- tions , and substituted in their room such figures as had some reference to their own history or fable , all accounts which can now be given of the ...
Page ix
... Greeks who estimated their number . In his catalogue he has inserted only one thousand and twenty - two , annexing ... Greek alphabet ; the first letter , or Alpha ( « ) , being affixed to the largest star in the group , the second ...
... Greeks who estimated their number . In his catalogue he has inserted only one thousand and twenty - two , annexing ... Greek alphabet ; the first letter , or Alpha ( « ) , being affixed to the largest star in the group , the second ...
Page x
... Greek or Italic letters have no reference to size . This method of naming the stars by letters was the invention of John Bayer , a native of Germany , who introduced it about the year 1603. But besides this letter name , many of the ...
... Greek or Italic letters have no reference to size . This method of naming the stars by letters was the invention of John Bayer , a native of Germany , who introduced it about the year 1603. But besides this letter name , many of the ...
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... divested of their imaginary figures , showing their relative position with regard to each other . PLATE XIX . - Telescopic Appearance of the Moon . E AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE . Greek Characters . A B α LIST OF THE PLATES .
... divested of their imaginary figures , showing their relative position with regard to each other . PLATE XIX . - Telescopic Appearance of the Moon . E AN EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE . Greek Characters . A B α LIST OF THE PLATES .
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&c.-This constellation &c.-This sign Aldebaran Algenib ancient Andromeda animal annular spot Antares Antinous appears Aquarius Aquila Arcturus Argo Navis Aries asterism astronomers Auriga Bootes bounded called Cancer Canis Minor Capella Capricornus Cassiopeia Castor Cepheus Cetus constellation Cygnus Delphinus Delta Dendera Dolphin Draco drawing a line earth ecliptic Ecliptica Egyptian Epsilon Equuleus Eridanus fable foot found by drawing fourth magnitude Gemini girdle Greeks Halo head heavens Hebrew zodiac Hercules HEVEL History Honores Frederici Hydra Iota Jupiter Kappa Leo Minor Libra line drawn Lion luminous Lynx Lyra Markab Milky Monoceros Moon nebulous northern observed Ophiuchus Orion Pegasus Perseus Pisces Piscis placed Plate Pleiades Pole star Pollux Position principal stars quadrilateral figure Regulus remarkable represented Sagittarius Scheat Scorpio second magnitude Sextans Sirius small stars southern Spica supposed tail Taurus telescope Theta third magnitude three stars triangle Ursa Major Ursa Minor Virgo Zeta zodiacs of Dendera
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