 | sir William Peck - 1885 - 72 pages
...among which the Sun moves are called the Zodiac, or "yoke of the sky,"they arc twelve in number, viz., Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. \ These Maps have been constructed on the Globular Projection, as it gives the least distortion for... | |
 | Eliza A. Bowen - Astronomy - 1886 - 116 pages
...signs, and containing 30° each. The signs were named for the constellations they were then in, viz., Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. Since then, by the precession of the equinoxes, the signs have moved out of the constellations from... | |
 | Garrett Putman Serviss - Astronomy - 1888 - 172 pages
...these zodiacal constellations, in their order, beginning at the west and counting round the circle, are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. Cancer has given its name to the circle called the Tropic of Cancer, which indicates the greatest northerly... | |
 | John Thornton (M.A.) - Astronomy - 1890 - 372 pages
...designated by the names of the constellations with the places of which they once corresponded. They are : Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. These signs are counted from the vernal equinox, where the sun intersects the equator at the beginning... | |
 | 1896 - 1154 pages
...star-groups, passing seemingly (from the earth's motion in space) in a great circle through the constellations Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius. Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. This circle, full of human interests, pantheon of the old mythologies and path of vanishing heroes,... | |
 | John Dryden - Readers - 1897 - 166 pages
...into twelve equal parts, each of thirty degrees; these were called the "Signs of the Zodiac," and were Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. The sun entered Aries at the vernal equinox ; thence it ran, in its apparent yearly circuit from west to... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 170 pages
...twelve equal parts, each of thirty degrees ; these were called the " Signs of the Zodiac," and were Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. The sun entered Aries at the vernal equinox ; thence it ran, in its apparent yearly circuit from west to... | |
 | Warren Raymond Perce - Bible and evolution - 1897 - 410 pages
...these signs. These twelve divisions are designated by the several constellations of stars, known as Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. In Aries is the vernal equinox and in Libra the autumnal. In Cancer is the summer solstice and in Capricornus... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1897 - 264 pages
...are twelve constellations lying upon the zodiac, and hence called the zodiacal constellations, viz., Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. These are also the names of the signs of the zodiac, or portions of 30° each into which the ecliptic... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - Civil engineering - 1899 - 578 pages
...signs of the zodiac and are named after the constellations which occupy them. The names of the signs of the zodiac are: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, and Pisces. (See star map.) 108. On the star map it will be seen that the vernal equinoctial point (T) is situated... | |
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Zodiac are Aries : Taurus : Gemini : Cancer : Leo : Virgo : Libra : Scorpio : Sagittarius... 
