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By Richard Hinckley
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Published 1899
G.E. Stechert

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THE SOLAR ZODIAC i	5
aratos, alfonsine, ideler
THE CONSTELLATIONS	311
aratos, riccioli, ulug
THE GALAXY	474
manilius, akkadian, milky
INDICES	489
auriga, sagittarius, scorpio

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Aratos - Page 89
of descriptive astronomy it has been identical with the star Al Hath, the 0 of Taurus at the extremity of the right horn, and Aratos so mentioned it. ...
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Epping - Page 140
while Epping is authority for the statement that this. or perhaps 0, marked the 26th ecliptic asterism of the Babylonians, ftarnu Shahu, ...
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Chandler - Page 235
Its variations, discovered by JF Julius Schmidt at Athens in 1847, have a period of about ten days, but Chandler says that definitive investigations ...
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Phoenix - Page 418
Tucana lies immediately south of Phoenix, bordering on the south polar Octans, its tail close to the bright Achernar of Eridanus, and marks the ...
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Sihor - Page 124
Sirius was worshiped, too, as Sihor, the Nile Star, and, even more commonly, as Sothi and Sothis, its popular Graeco-Egyptian name, the Brightly ...
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Rome - Page 225
In classical days the constellation was often symbolized by two stars over a ship; and having been appointed by Jove as guardians of Rome, ...
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Messina - Page 147
Maurolycus began its systematic study at Messina on the 8th, while Tycho did not see it till the nth, at the time of its greatest brilliancy; ...
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Oxford - Page 272
He may have been thus inspired by recollections of his student days at Oxford, where he must often have seen this sign, as a Judge in full robes, ...
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Baghdad - Page 295
Al Sufi mentioned it as Al Bakr, the White Ox, of the southern Arabs, and invisible from Baghdad, or northern Arabia, but visible from the parallel of ...
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Athens - Page 333
Although classed among the white stars with a Sirian spectrum, Al Sufi wrote of it as red, which Schmidt confirmed as seen by him at Athens for a ...
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Eleusis - Page 88
It served, too, the same purpose for worship in Greece, where it may have been the orientation point of a temple at Eleusis to the goddess Diana Pro- ...
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Venice - Page 12
Various editions have been printed : the first in 1483, two hundred years after Alfonso's death; again, in 1492 and 1521, all at Venice and in Latin; ...
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Augsburg - Page 13
In the succeeding year appeared the Uranometria of Johann Bayer, the great Protestant lawyer of Augsburg, a work also much tinctured with the occult ...
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Kashira - Page 141
Kashira is from Al Sa'd al Nashirah, the Fortunate One, or the Bringer of Good Tidings, which the early Arabs applied to this when taken with r5. ...

Cairo - Page 154
Columba, and Canis Major, probably on account of their proximity to the horizon; the meridian altitude of j3, 1000 years ago at Cairo, in 30° of north ...
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Jerusalem - Page 398
while Josephus states, among his very few stellar allusions, that during the investment of Jerusalem by Antiochus Epiphanes, 170 B. c., the besieged ...
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Marseilles - Page 391
to 9416 discovered up to December, 1887 ; and since then at least icoo more have been added by Swift and the observers at Marseilles. ...
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Berlin - Page 253
but by Berlin as the Shining Disc which precedes Bel; the latter being our Ursa Major, or in some way intimately connected therewith. ...
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New York City - Page 196
It rises in the latitude of New York City at sunset on the rath of May, culminating on the i6th of September, and lies so far to the north that it is ...
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Damascus - Page 37
1 The catalogue of this author, Muhammad abu Bekr al Tizini al Muwakkit, was published at Damascus in 1533 with 302 stars, and from its long list of ...
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Masakin - Page 176
Hyde quoted Kas at al Salik, and Kas at al Masakin, the Pauper's Bowl; and the Persians had the same in their Kasah Danvlshau, the Dervish's Platter, ...

Mulda - Page 216
La Lande cited Mulda, equivalent to another title for the stellar Eridanus. — Mt'/.ar, Black, — and so again connected with Egypt, whose native name, ...

Saint Paul - Page 225
In The Acts of the Apostles, xxviii, n, we read that the Twin Brothers were the " sign," or figurehead, of the ship in which Saint Paul and his ...
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Naxos - Page 176
Columella, in a similar connection, called it Gnosia Ardor Bacchi, ami Naxius Ardor, from Naxos, where Ariadne had been deserted by Theseus; ...
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London - Page 228
High regard, too, was paid to it in the lyth century as being peculiarly connected with the fortunes of the south of England and the city of London; ...
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Paris - Page 30
of astronomer at the Edinburgh University, thus alluded, in his French Revolution, to the scenes in Paris on the night of the gth of August, 1792 : ...
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Seville - Page 85
har- IThis early Hispalis, the modern Seville, was the site of the first European observatory of our era, erected by the Moor Geber in 1196. ...
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Nysa - Page 387
Similarly they were said to be the Nysiades, the nymphs of Nysa, and teachers of Bacchus in India. Anciently supposed to be seven in number, ...

Bristol - Page 285
and there were violent riots in consequence in different parts of the country, especially at Bristol, where several persons were killed. ...

Greenwich - Page 196
investigations made at Greenwich seemed to show motion at the rate of thirty-six miles a second toward the earth, and so only apparently stationary. ...
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Vienna - Page 438
i This is said lo have been the second of such works; the first being variously given ** P"'1" lished in Vienna by Purbach, or in Buda, or in Poland a ...
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Whittier - Page 185
Whittier said, in his Cry of a Lost Soul : The Cross of pardon lights the Iropic skies ; which is correct for our day, as it is not now entirely ...

Cambridge, Massachusetts - Page 127
and even seen in broad sunshine with the naked eye by Bond at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and by others at midday with very slight optical aid; ...

Jiddah - Page 256
IThe province containing Mecca, Medina, and Jiddah, and reaching to Tehama, the to» land bordering on the Red Sea.

Dover - Page 478
except it be in regard of the narrowness it seemeth to have, or else in respect of that gre»t highway that lieth between Dover and St. ...

Newark, New Jersey - Page 424
Luther of Newark, New Jersey, tells me that a similar story was current with the Pennsylvania Germans ot forty years ago. ...

Multan - Page 185
And Al Biruni wrote that a star could be seen from Multan in India, in 30° 12' of north latitude, " which they call Sula," the Beam of Crucifixion. ...

Leon - Page 12
El Sabio, the Wise, and the Astronomer, of Leon and Castile, who " abandoned the crown for the astrolabe and forgot the earth for the sky. ...

Tunis - Page 108
governing the human breast and stomach; and reigned over Scotland, Holland, Zealand, Burgundy, Africa (especially over Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis), ...

Toulouse - Page 287
At a point }/$ of the distance from )3 to y is the wonderful Ring Nebula, NGC 6720, 57 M., discovered in 1772 by Darquier from Toulouse, although its ...

Palermo - Page 323
A coin of Panormus, the modern Palermo, has the Horse's head with what was proba-bly intended for a dorsal plume. ...

Hebi - Page 282
In Bohemia our Lyra was Hauslicky na Hebi, the Fiddle in the Sky; but the Teutons knew it as Harapha, and the Anglo-Saxons as Hearpe. which Fortunatus ...

Florence - Page 42
Meucci for one in Florence ; another, of bronze. from Arabian times, the stars lettered in silver, but not figured, is in the rooms of the Royal ...

CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY - Page xx
nomenclature and " archaeology of practical astronomy," I submit it to all lovers of the stars. MEADOW VIEW, CHATHAM, NEW JERSEY, February 16, 1899. ...

Paros - Page 86
A Chariot and Goat are shown on coins of consular Rome, and a Goat alone on those of Paros, that may have referred to this constellation. ...

Belgrade - Page 373
Some identify this Cross, however, with that of the fighting Fran-ciscan friar, Saint John Capistrano, famous at Belgrade in 1456, and now honored by ...

Prague - Page 42
comparatively small dimensions, five to eight inches in diameter, a great contrast to the six-foot globe of Tycho Brahe, now in the castle at Prague. ...

Lora - Page 85
of the translation of Ptolemy's Te-pa'j3</3Aof should be Eoha, Bayer's Boh, a Wagoner ; Beigel, however, considered it a misprint for Lora, the Reins. ...

Balh - Page 77
1 This author, known also as 'Abu Ma'shar and Ja'phar, was from Balh' in Turkestan, celebrated as an astrologer and quoted by Al Birum, ...

Saint Gall - Page 79
A nova is reported to have appeared here in May, 1012, described by Epidamnus, the monk of Saint Gall, as oculos verbtrans.

Bathsheba - Page 145
or Deborah sitting in judgment under her palm tree in Mount Ephraim;' or Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, worthy to sit on the royal throne. ...

Philadelphia - Page 252
and reigning in modern days over Bohemia, France, Italy, and the cities of Bath, Bristol, and Tauntonin England, and our Philadelphia. ...

La Condamine - Page 381
South American savage tribes held ideas similar to our own about Tau-rus, for La Condamine, the celebrated French scientist of the last century, ...

Cambridge - Page xi
Old Thomas Hood, of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1590 asserted that they were " for instruction's sake . . . things cannot be taught without names " ...
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Vardi - Page 217
Riccioli cited for it Vardi, and a Moorish title, according to Bayer, was Ouad,— the 1720 edition of the Uranometria has Quagi,— all these from the ...

Morristown - Page xx
Lastly do I thank my young friend Miss Lucy Noble Morris, of Morristown, for long-continued aid in various ways, especially in her tasteful selection ...

Olympia - Page 468
Temples of Here were also so oriented at Olympia 1445 B. c., at Argos and Girgenti; and those of Nike Apteros at Athens, 1130 B. c., and of" the Great ...

Naples - Page 226
Telmes — San Telmo of Spain; or of San Anselmo, Ermo, Hermo, and Eremo. from Anselmus, or Erasmus, bishop of Naples, martyred in Diocletian's reign. ...

Hartford, Connecticut - Page 15
This described fifty well-recognized constellations visible from the latitude of Hartford, Connecticut, 41° 46'; although his table of those in the ...

Nuremberg - Page 29
one of ench hemisphere, engraved on wood, in which the stars of Plolemy were laid down by Heinfogel, a mathematician of Nuremberg. ...

Madrid - Page 193
The Alfonsine Tables, in the recent Madrid edition, supposed to be a reproduction of the original, illustrate their Galina by a forlorn Hen instead ...

Cologne - Page 29
I would add to this that Ptolemy's catalogue of stars was published at Cologne in 1537, in folio, with the forty-eight drawings by Diirer. ...

Birmingham - Page 195
While interesting in many respects, it is especially so in possessing an unusual number of deeply colored stars, Birmingham writing of this : ...

Rouen - Page 429
which Edmund Becke, in his edition of 1549, transforms into Vaynes, and Cadmarden, in his Rouen edition of 1515, into the Waves of Heaven. ...

Cordoba - Page 201
The comparative brilliancy of 0, y, <5, and e has been variously estimated —a fact which the observations of Gould at Albany in 1858, and at Cordoba ...

Lyon - Page 125
plagues and death,— seems to have been taken from the Shepheard's Kalendar for July: The rampant Lyon hunts he fast with dogge of noysome breath ...

Poitiers - Page 282
knew it as Harapha, and the Anglo-Saxons as Hearpe. which Fortunatus of the 6th century, the poet-bishop of Poitiers, called the barbarians' Harpa. ...

Milan - Page 14
2 Peter Martyr — not the great reformer Vermigli — was Pietro Martire d'Anghiera, Angle- ria, or Anglicra, from his supposed birthplace near Milan. ...

Peking - Page 21
the Western Nation Names, became common, especially in the case of the constellations visible only from south of the parallel of Peking, 40°. ...

Hamburg - Page 49
Russia, Lower Sweden, Westphalia, Bremen, and Hamburg. Proctor's Myths and Man-els of Astronomy has a list of the astrological colors of the zodiac ...

Charleston - Page 275
Its modern reign has been over Alsace, Antwerp, Austria, Aethiopia, Frankfurt, India, Lisbon, Livonia, Portugal, Savoy, Vienna, and our Charleston; ...

Hanover - Page 341
It was in Pisces, on the 2d of September, 1804, that Harding, of Lilien- thal in Hanover, discovered the minor planet Juno. ...

Leipzig - Page 383
Archipelago, Mantua, and Leipzig in modern astrology, as it did over Ara-bia, Asia, and Scythia in ancient; Ampelius assigned to it the care of the ...

Waki - Page 545
Sa hb al Waki', Al, an Arabic figure in Draco, 207. Salm, Al, and Sal ma (T Pegasi), 329. Sam'akah, Al (Pisces), 338. Sam'akatain', Al, the Arabic ...

Kentau - Page 545
Ri'jil al Kentau'rus (a Centauri), 152. Rijl al Mus'alsalah (y Amlrmnedac), 37. Rijl al Jau zah al Yamna' (* Orionis), 318. ...

Sartana - Page 525
Sartono, correctly Sartana, 108. Sarur, 370. Sarw, 435. Sa-Sha-Shiru, 468. Sata VaEaa, 67. Sataves, 385. Satellites of Jupiter, Marius' names for, 39. ...

Phek - Page 544
Phec'da, Pheg'da, and Phek'da (y Ursae Majoris), 438. Pherd, Hyde's name for a Hydrjc. 249. Pherkad' Major, Pherkad Minor (>', r* Ursic Minoris), 459. ...

Alphen - Page 538
Alphac'a, Alphakh'aco, and Alphen'a (Coron Horealis), 176, 178. Alphart', a star in Argo, 75 ; a Hydrac, 249. Alphe'rat and Alphe'rati (a Andromcdae), ...

Nesher - Page 517
Neshr, correctly Nesher, 57; in the CkaUit Para- plirase, 57. Nessus, 240. Nethibhath Tebhen, 481. Newton (Spica), 466. Newton, Professor Hubert Anson ...

Guyam - Page 508
Guiam, Gaiam, and Guyam. 246. Gula, 311. Gus-ba-ra, 257. Gu-shi-rab-ba, 360. Gu-shir-kes-da, 113. Gut-an-na, 382. Habenifer, 85. ...

Arequipa - Page 277
But it is chiefly noticeable from the recent photographic discovery by Bailey, at Arequipa, of at least forty-six, perhaps sixty, variables in the ...
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Niau - Page 257
Individually it was Niau, the Bird, and so representative of the whole quadripartite zodiacal group. In addition to the evidence, ...

Sydney - Page 190
although it has many that are telescopic, and a photograph taken at Sydney in 1890 shows about as many in proportion as in the surrounding region. ...
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Lima - Page 189
How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahs of Venezuela and in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, " Midnight is past, ...

Tajao - Page 21
ascribe the formation of constellations to Tajao, the prime minister of Hwang Ti, 2637 B. c., and make much of an observation of the Pleiades, ...

Cape Town - Page 291
the fact that the Table Mountain, back of Cape Town, " which had witnessed his nightly vigils and daily toils," also was frequently capped by a cloud. ...