Easy Star LessonsG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894 - 239 pages |
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1st Mag Admiral Smyth Andromeda ANTLIA Aquarius AQUILA astronomers AURIGA Boötes Boston Ofor Boston Philad Louisville bright star Canis Minor Capella Capricornus Cassiopeia Cepheus Cetus Coma Berenices constellation Cygnus DRACO east eastern Ecliptic Equator ERIDANUS figure formed Gemini HERCULES Horizon of London Horizon of NOrleans hour HYDRA lat of Boston latitude of Boston latitude of Louisville latitude of Philad LENOX Leo Minor Little Bear London Boston Philad London Eng Louisville Philad Boston Mag 3rd Magde Milky NOrleans NOrleans Louisville Philad O'for Ois the point Ophiuchus Orion Pegasus Perseus Philad Boston London Philad Louisville NOrleans Philad Star PISCES placed Pleiades Plough point overhead pole Pole-star position PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR seen Serpent shown Sky at 10PM Solstitial Colure SOUTHERN MAP Southern Sky STAR MAPS Star of 1st Star of 2nd star-group Starof TAURUS telescope THENEW YORK PUBLIC URSA MAJOR URSA MINOR Virgo WESTERN MAP Western Sky
Popular passages
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?
Page 157 - Round he surveys (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 that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas, Beyond the horizon...
Page 70 - Thro' cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing : 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 2 - HALF-HOURS WITH THE STARS: a Plain and Easy Guide to the Knowledge of the Constellations. Showing in 12 Maps the position oi the principal Star-Groups night after night throughout the year.
Page 193 - 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 193 - 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 207 - 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.
Page 2 - HALF-HOURS WITH THE TELESCOPE: a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a means of Amusement and Instruction.
Page 208 - Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By the mass and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Methinks it is like a weasel. It is backed like a weasel. Or like a whale? Very like a whale.
Page 154 - Sm. has justly characterized as ' cacophonous and barbaric,' and says that ' no poring into the black-letter versions of the Almagest, El Battáni, Ibn Yunis, 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.' And of Botanev he observes, ' That which putteth derivation and etymology at defiance.