 | Education - 1879 - 588 pages
...absurd or puerile in their origin, are entirely arbitrary, and correspond to no natural suli-divisious or groupings of the stars. Astronomers treat them lightly, or altogether disregard them. "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost... | |
 | Ecclesiological Society - Church buildings - 1920 - 310 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,'...treat them lightly, or altogether disregard them." " This disregard," Herschel says, in a note to the foregoing excerpt, " is neither supercilious nor... | |
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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... 
