 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...them. In so far as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid " constellations,"...*, except for briefly naming remarkable stars, as a. Leonis, j3 Scorpii, &c. &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. The reader will... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...them. In so far as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by 'a view of the more splendid " constellations,"...them*, except for briefly naming remarkable stars, as a Leonis, /5 Scorpii, &c. &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. The reader will find... | |
 | Mrs. L. H. Tyler - Astronomy - 1837 - 302 pages
...says Herschel, " as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid constellations,...them, except for briefly naming remarkable stars as a Leonis, {3 Scorpii, &c. &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them." " This disregard... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...them,—in so far as they really have (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid constellations,...them, except for briefly naming remarkable stars, as a Leonis, $ Scorpii, &e. &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. This disregard," he... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...difficult to dislodge them. In so far as they have really any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid ' constellations,'...altogether disregard them, except for briefly naming particular stars, as a Leonis, (3 Scorpio, &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them."... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...them. In so far as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid « constellations,"...them,* except for briefly naming remarkable stars, as a Leonis, >3 Scorpii, &c. &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. The reader will find... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Educational sociology - 1850 - 586 pages
...difficult to dislodge them. In so far as they have really any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid 'constellations,'...no natural subdivisions or groupings of the stars, astronomer» treat them lightly, or altogether disregard them, except for briefly naming particular... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 620 pages
...them. In so far as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid ' constellations,'...remarkable stars ; as ' Alpha Leonis,' ' Beta Scorpii,' Ate., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. " This disregard is neither supercilious nor... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1853 - 608 pages
...them. In so far as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid "constellations,"...astronomers treat them lightly, or altogether disregard them,1 except for briefly naming remarkable stars, as o Leonis, (3 Scorpii, &c. &c., by letters of... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1855 - 416 pages
...them. In so far as they have really (as some have) any slight resemblance to the figures called up in imagination by a view of the more splendid 'constellations,'...naming remarkable stars, as 'Alpha Leonis,' ' Beta Scorpil,' &c., by letters of the Greek alphabet attached to them. " This disregard is neither supercilious... | |
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... they have a certain convenience ; but as they are otherwise entirely arbitrary, and correspond to no natural subdivisions or groupings of the stars, astronomers treat them lightly, or altogether disregard them, except for briefly naming remarkable... 
