...Obliquity.} The ecliptic is divided into 12 equal parts called signs, each including thirty degrees ; Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The horizon is a circle ninety degrees distant from the ze^ nith of any place, the plane of which divides...

...Mercury, Venus, The Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, The Georgium Sidus. The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The Twelve Labours of Hercules: 1. The Lion of Nemea, 2. The Serpent of Lerna, 3. The brazen-footed...

...degrees on each side of the ecliptic line, and contains the twelve constellations or signs. They are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The ecliptic line cuts the equinoctial obliquely in two opposite points, whence the poet calls the...

...degrees on each side of the ecliptic line, and contains the twelve constellations or signs. They are Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The ecliptic line cuts the equinoctial obliquely in two opposite points, whence the poet calls the...

...occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named in order — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. They are denoted also by the following symbols: — 'y>, «, n, 25, Si, i%, .*, »l, t,^f, ~, K. The...

...occupying 30° of its circumference. They commence at the vernal equinox, and are named in order — Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. They are denoted also by the following symbols: — <v, b , n, SB, SI, 1%, ===, ni, t,V, ~, X. The...

...constellations, through which the sun appears to pass in performing his apparent circuit of the heavens : Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. These divisions do not now, however, coincide with the constellations from which their names are derived....

...divided into twelve equal parts, denominated the twelve signs of the ecliptic, each containing 30° ; Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The meridian is a great circle encompassing the Earth from north to south, passing through the poles,...

...vernal equinox, and is continued eastwardly round to the same point again, in the following order : Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. The Sun, commencing at the first degree of Aries, about the 21st 0I March, passes, at a mean rate^through...

...supposed to be divided into twelve signs, or 360 degrees, which have received the following names:— Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra,...Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces. Each of these is divided into thirty equal parts, called degrees ; each GENERAL APPEARANCES OF VENTJS....