| Joseph Raphson, Jacques Ozanam - 1702 - 200 σελίδες
...Time,d>-c. into Degrees, Minutes, Seconds, foe Signs A/lronomical, are the 12 Signs in the 2odiack,n/^. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquar'ius, Pifces. Sicily, the Name of a Country. Algebraic*, arc thefe following, 4. which fignifies more, or that the... | |
| Ladies' diary - 1775 - 430 σελίδες
...contrived to know them thereby, and which are made ufe of at this day. Thefe iz images, conftellations, or figns, are placed in the heavens in this order:...right hand towards the left. Thus, if I fee Aries in the heavens, the next fign Taurus, ftands towards the left hand, or eafterly of Aries, and the Bext... | |
| Virgil - 1778 - 478 σελίδες
...degrees oi> each fide of the ecliptic line, and contains the twelve conftellations or (igns. They are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces. The ecliptic line cut; the equinoctial obliquely in two oppofite points, wh:ncc the poet calls the... | |
| George Adams - 1794 - 606 σελίδες
...Thus the ftars near the ecliptic are diftributed into twelve conftellations or figns, which are named, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces. The fun appears always in this circle, advancing in it nearly a degree in a day, and going through... | |
| William Philipps - 1817 - 292 σελίδες
...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,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. I have, in the following pages, made use of the English name« of the signs, in preference... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 σελίδες
...twelve, each occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named in order — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. They are denoted also by the following symbols: — 'y>, «, n, 25, Si, i%, .*, »l, t,^f,... | |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 σελίδες
...twelve, each occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named in order — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. They are denoted also by the following symbols: — <v, b , n, SB, SI, 1%, ===, ni, t,V, ~,... | |
| Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - 1838 - 350 σελίδες
...at the vernal equinox, and is continued eastwardly round to the same point again, in the following order : Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The Sun, commencing at the first degree of Aries, about the 21st 0I March, passes, at a mean... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 706 σελίδες
...twelve, each occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named in order — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces.* They are denoted also by the following symbols : — T, «, n, ©, Si, nfc, ^, HI, / , yy,... | |
| John Cargill Brough - 1859 - 432 σελίδες
...the plane of this orbit with the sphere of the heavens into twelve equal portions or signs, named in order — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The sun, however, has also a real motion : he moves with the entire solar system in the direction... | |
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