Constellations Sentence Examples

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  • In the formation of the constellations of the zodiac little regard was paid to stellar configurations.

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  • Jackson and Elisabeth spent many evenings outdoors lying on the frigid ground, stargazing, pointing out the constellations, and anticipating the occasional falling star.

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  • They exhibit in an exaggerated form the irregularities of distribution visible in our zodiacal constellations, and present the further anomaly of being frequently reckoned as twenty-eight in number, while the ecliptical arcs they characterize are invariably twenty-seven.

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  • Which star constellations can be used to navigate by?

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  • Greek mythology tales speak of lovers that ended up as constellations, so give your love a story set against the stars.

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  • The Hindu zodiacal constellations belong then to an earlier epoch than the Chinese " stations," such as they have been transmitted to our acquaintance.

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  • They were divided on the same principle; each opened at the spring equinox; the first Arab sign Sharatan was strictly equivalent to the Hindu Acvini; and eighteen constellations in each were virtually coincident.

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  • Associated with the Sky are tablets to the sun and moon, the seven stars of the Great Bear, the five planets, the twenty-eight constellations, and all the stars of heaven; tablets to clouds, rain, wind and thunder being placed next to that of the moon.

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  • After her death she was placed by Athena amongst the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia.

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  • Meanwhile, the elementary requirement of making visual acquaintance with the stellar heavens was met, as regards the unknown southern skies, when Johann Bayer published at Nuremberg in 1603 a celestial atlas depicting twelve new constellations Bayer.

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  • Maraldi), giving zoneobservations of 10,000 stars, and describing fourteen new constellations; "Observations sur 515 etoiles du Zodiaque" (published in t.

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  • The creation of a series of twelve constellations to match the twelve months naturally came later.

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  • If you are able to point out some constellations, your date is likely to be impressed.

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  • The zodiac constellations in the sky are divided into twelve sections.

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  • It is bounded by two circles equidistant from the ecliptic, about eighteen degrees apart; and it is divided into twelve signs, and marked by twelve constellations.

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  • The earliest Greek work which purported to treat the constellations qua constellations, of which we have certain knowledge, is the 4'atvoµeva of Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 4 0 3-35 0 B.C.).

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  • In this enumeration Serpens is included in Serpentarius and Lupus in Centaurus; these two constellations were separated by Hipparchus and, later, by Ptolemy.

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  • Students may use chalk to draw a few familiar constellations on the underside of the opened umbrella.

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  • The constellation is one of the twelve zodiac constellations.

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  • It's often easier for young earthlings to make their own pictures up before they try to see the shapes and constellations of the traditions.

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  • The tropical zodiac (not the sidereal zodiac of constellations) is used, in line with majority astrological opinion in the modern West.

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  • The gods are represented as resolving to banish from the heavens the constellations, which served to remind them of their evil deeds.

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  • The constellations that and ned unceasingly to speed across the sky were named the and er-resting ones, and the circumpolar stars, which never ing beneath the horizon, were known as the imperishables.

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  • Star name kits contain the certificate, a booklet with the charts of constellations and a detailed chart with your star circled in red.

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  • Or, if you're sick of working, you can always go and make your own constellations at the observatory...

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  • Some levels, in which you replace key constellations, require you to build a katamari out of specific things.

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  • In Western astrology, the 12 signs of the Zodiac are associated with astrological constellations.

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  • The Chinese zodiac, like the western zodiac, has 12 signs, However, the Chinese animal signs represent years, not constellations.

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  • Name your own constellations, and invite family members and friends to do the same.

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  • Astrology expanded this system to include a spiritually twisted belief that the stars and constellations had a tremendous influence on the world, especially individuals and even more so on their birthdays.

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  • Adding stars or constellations to your design will help create a celestial zodiac piece.

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  • Constellations can make great abstract tattoos for the right person.

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  • As a result, the tattoo can be expanded to include other constellations.

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  • When all is said and done and the words "the end" enter her mind, Rowling has left a trail of constellations between the covers of her novels.

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  • Moreover, we have good reasons for inferring that different constellations of external causes may determine whether the internal physiological disturbances induced by a given agent shall lead to pathological and dangerous variations, or to changes which may be harmless or even advantageous to the plant concerned.

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  • Their priesthood was a highly trained profession, and they had schools which taught a knowledge of the stars and constellations, for many of which they had names.

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  • Orion is one of the most conspicuous constellations.

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  • For in the Babylonian religion the planetary constellations are reckoned as the supreme deities.

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  • The twelve constellations of the zodiac form an ingenious machine, a great wheel with buckets, which pour into the sun and moon, those shining ships that sail continually through space, the portions of light set free from the world.

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  • The people had a knowledge of the stars, of the rising and setting of the constellations at different seasons of the year; by this means they determined the favourable season for making a voyage and directed their course.

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  • Applying the same method of careful observation to the sun and planets, and later to some of the constellations and to many of the fixed stars, it will be apparent that the body of observations noted must have grown in the course of time to large and indeed to enormous proportions, and correspondingly the interpretations assigned to the nearly endless variations in the phenomena thus observed.

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  • The theory of the ecliptic as representing the course of the sun through the year, divided among twelve constellations with a measurement of 30 to each division, is also of Babylonian origin, as has now been definitely proved; but it does not appear to have been perfected until after the fall of the Babylonian empire in 539 B.C. Similarly, the other accomplishments of Babylonian astronomers, such as their system or rather systems of moon calculations and the drawing up of planetary tablets, belong to this late period, so that the golden age of Babylonian astronomy belongs not to the remote past, as was until recently supposed, but to the Seleucid period, i.e.

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  • From the planets the same association of ideas was applied to the constellations of the zodiac, which in later phases of astrology are placed on a par with the planets themselves, so far as their importance for the individual horoscope is concerned.

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  • With human anatomy thus connected with the planets, with constellations, and with single stars, medicine became an integral part of astrology, or, as we might also put it, astrology became the handmaid of medicine.

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  • From the earliest times the star-groups known as constellations, the smaller groups (parts of constellations) known as asterisms, and also individual stars, have received names connoting some meteorological phenomena, or symbolizing religious or mythological beliefs.

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  • The origin and development of the grouping of the stars into constellations is more a matter of archaeological than of astronomical interest.

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  • These constellations were arranged in three concentric annuli, the northern ones in an inner annulus subdivided into 60 degrees, the zodiacal ones into a medial annulus of 1 zo degrees, and the southern ones into an outer annulus of 240 degrees.

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  • In the 'acvoµeva of Aratus 44 constellations are enumerated, viz.

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  • The inter-relations of the Phoenicians with the early Hellenes were frequent and farreaching, and in the Greek presentation of the legends concerning constellations a distinct Phoenician, and in turn Euphratean, element appears.

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  • It cannot be argued, however, that these were the only stars and constellations named in his time; the omission proves nothing.

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  • The same is true of the Homeric epics wherein the Pleiades, Hyades, Ursa major, Orion and Bootes are mentioned, and also of the stars and constellations mentioned in Job.

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  • Tycho Brahe, when compiling his catalogue of stars, was unable to observe Lupus, Ara, Corona australis and Piscis australis, on account of the latitude of Uranienburg; and hence these constellations are omitted from his catalogue.

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  • The zodiacal constellations have an interest peculiarly their own; placed in or about the plane of the ecliptic, their rising and setting with the sun was observed with relation to weather changes and the more general subject of chronology, the twelve subdivisions of the year being correlated with the twelve divisions of the ecliptic (see Zodiac).

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  • Ancient civilizations (and more modern ones) have long viewed the skies as a mystical presence and there are some religions where stars and constellations play a role in their beliefs.

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  • Wiccans, Pagans and Druids all have a belief in the heavens, Mother Earth and the like, in which the stars and constellations play a large part in those beliefs.

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  • The constellations themselves are filled with wonderfully colorful myths and legends as the Romans, Druids, American Indians and the Norse (among other cultures) all have stories and beliefs that include the stars.

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  • Twins, those who enjoy Roman myths and stories, those who love the stars and constellations and the stories behind them or anyone who feels they embody the traits of the Gemini should feel welcome to sport this tattoo.

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  • Down the road, you can add stars, planets and even constellations for a unique and stellar piece.

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  • They included a perpetual calendar with phases and age of the moon, indication of sunrise and sunset, and a celestial chart depicting the constellations of stars in the sky over Packard's home in Ohio.

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  • This Jaeger Lecoultre Atmos also has a new movement that displays northern hemisphere constellations through a large opening.

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  • The constellations bearing the same names coincided approximately in position, when Hipparchus observed them at Rhodes, with the divisions they designate.

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  • Besides the sun and moon, five planets, thirty-six dekans, and constellations to which animal and other forms are given, appear in the early astronomical texts and paintings.

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  • Further support is given to the view that, in the main, the constellations were transmitted to the Greeks by the Phoenicians from Euphratean sources in the fact that Thales, the earliest Greek astronomer of any note, was of Phoenician descent.

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  • Here the " signs " and the " constellations " of the lunar zodiac form two essentially distinct systems. The ecliptic is divided into twenty-seven equal parts, called bhogas or arcs, of Boo' each.

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  • The names and orientation of the constellations therein adopted are, with but few exceptions, identical with those used at the present day; and as it cannot be doubted that Ptolemy made only very few modifications in the system of Hipparchus, the names were adopted at least three centuries before the Almagest was compiled.

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  • He diverged from Ptolemy when he placed the asterisms Coma Berenices and Antinous upon the level of formal constellations, Ptolemy having 1 The historical development of star-catalogues in general, regarded as statistics of the co-ordinates, &c., of stars, is given in the historical section of the article 'ASTRONOMY.

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