 The constellations seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory can follow them ; bears, lions,...  A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy - Page 555by George Frederick Chambers - 1877 - 928 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...point to point, as we mark out the course of * This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory cart follow them ; bears, lions and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature,... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...point to point, as we mark out the course of * This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes tw>ne through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory can follow them ; bears, lions... | |
 | Thomas Spofford - Almanacs, American - 1835 - 84 pages
...of men and monsters, on celestial globes and maps, where one figure runs into another, and numerous snakes twine through long and contorted areas of the heavens where no memory can follow them, and bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nonienclature, &c.... | |
 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 486 pages
...convenience and love of arrangement. " The constellations," says an astronomer of our own time 33 , seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and incon" Job xxxviii. 31. " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Chima (the Pleiades) or loose the... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1048 pages
...mere convenience and love of arrangement. "The constellations," says an astronomer of our own time", seem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much confusion and incon25 Job xxxviii. 31. " Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Chima (the Pleiades) or loose the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Physics - 1838 - 266 pages
...letters of the Greek alphabet attached to lbem. "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...through long and contorted areas of the heavens, where no.memory can follow them ; bears, lions', and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Astronomy - 1839 - 262 pages
...letters of" the Greek alphabet attached to them. "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...and contorted areas of the heavens, where no memory call follow them ; bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Astronomy - 1839 - 298 pages
...alphabet attached to them. " This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations eeem to have been almost purposely named and delineated to cause as much conuieion and inconvenience as possible. Innumerable snakes twine throngh long and contorted areas... | |
 | 1840 - 430 pages
...Greek alphabet attached to them. This disregard," he adds, "is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...memory can follow them; bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature, &c. A better system of constellations... | |
 | Child rearing - 1840 - 460 pages
...Greek alphabet attached to them." And again: "This disregard is neither supercilious nor causeless. The constellations seem to have been almost purposely...memory can follow them ; bears, lions, and fishes, large and small, northern and southern, confuse all nomenclature, &c. A better system of constellations... | |
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