 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1869 - 66 Seiten
...Draco, whose body and tail extend upwards, between the Guardians of the Pole and the Greater Bear. It is impossible not to recognise, from the configuration of this constellation as now seen, that the ancients looked on the stars which form the Lesser Bear as forming a wing of... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1870 - 58 Seiten
...Draco, whose body and tail extend upwards, between the Guardians of the Pole and the greater Bear. It is impossible not to recognise, from the configuration of this constellation as now seen, that the ancients looked on the stars which form the Lesser Bear as forming a wing of... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1883 - 116 Seiten
...copper ' [ie amber]. But this rendering is more than doubtful, and Mr. Proctor suggestively remarks : ' It is impossible not to recognise, from the configuration of this constellation [Draco] as now seen, that the ancients looked on the stars which form the Lesser Bear as forming a... | |
 | Society of Biblical Archæology (London, England) - 1887 - 458 Seiten
...page 25), in the place of the great Serpent, remarking elsewhere, "It is impossible not to recognize, from the configuration of this constellation, that...which form the Lesser Bear as forming a wing of Draco" (Half- Hours with the Stars, page 15). Hesychios gives, A«/3ot» XiJ, <fy>*rros, XoX^aiot. But he... | |
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It is impossible not to recognise, from the configuration of this constellation as now seen, that the ancients looked on the stars which form the Lesser Bear as forming a wing of Draco. 