 Capricorn; because the sun, at the respective solstices, is situated in the division, or signs of the ecliptic so denominated. Of these signs there are twelve, each occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named...  Astronomy - الصفحة 194بواسطة sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Ladies' diary - 1775 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...made ufe of at this day. Thefe iz images, conftellations, or figns, are placed in the heavens in this order: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces, and are placed in the heaven from weft towards the eaft, or (with us) from the right hand towards... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1775 - عدد الصفحات: 382
.... ufe of at this day. Thefe ia images, conflellations, or figns, are placed in the heavens in this order:" Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo,...Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pifces, and are placed in the heaven from weft towards the eaft, or (with us) from the right hand towards... | |
 | John Leyden - 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...tuelf partis, and ilk part is callit ane sing, the quhilk zodiac extendis til tuelf singnis, callit Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. Ande euyrie sing is diuidit in xxx degreis. Ther is tua vthir circlis in the spere callit colures.... | |
 | John Ewing - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...containing thirty degrees; to which portions they have affixed the following names, in order, viz. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. If two small circles of the globe were supposed to be drawn parallel to the ecliptic at the distance... | |
 | George Adams - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...expressive of fulness or completion, it is used in that sense in sacred writ. The signs are named, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. We may imagine as many circles as we please drawn on a globe, parallel to the equator, and these will... | |
 | George Adams - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...expressive of fulness or completion, it is used in that sense in sacred writ. The signs are named, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. We may imagine as many circles as we please drawn on a globe, parallel to the equator, and these will... | |
 | Abner Alden - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 222
...with the number of stars in each, according to Mr. Flamstead. FIRST DIVISION, OR ZODIACK. Latin Names. Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricornus Aquarius Pisces SECOND DIVISION Latin Namet. Uisa minor Ursa major Draco Cepheus Bootes English Names. The Ram The... | |
 | William Philipps - 1817 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...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,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. I have, in the following pages, made use of the English name« of the signs, in preference to the Latin,... | |
 | Alexander Duncan Campbell - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...corresponding sign of the zodiac as explained below. Lunar months. Corresponding sign of the zodiac. Aries. Taurus. Gemini. —-Cancer. Leo. Virgo; •...Sagittarius. • "Capricornus. •- Aquarius^, Pisces. APPENDIX. J5 Tv^ belongs is naine.d twice over ; it is first considered £3$2"-or intercalary, and... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...situated, that the earth in its annual revolution passes directly between them and the sun. Their names are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces ; the whole occupying a complete circle, or broad belt, in the heavens, called the zodiac, (plate VIII.... | |
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