 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.  Half-hours with the stars - Página 2por Richard Anthony Proctor - 1869Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Robert Brown - 1883 - 116 páginas
...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... | |
 | Aratus (of Soli.) - 1885 - 150 páginas
...tail, horns, claws, and wings ' (George Smith, Chaldean Account of Genesis, 113). Mr. Proctor observes: 'It is impossible not to recognise, from the configuration of this constellation, that the ancients [say rather ' the archaics'] looked on the stars which form the Lesser Bear as forming... | |
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