However, I resolved for the future to make my observations without light, and consult my planispherein the house.
Planisphere from Nineveh, and a table of lunar longitudes, 116-7.
The British Museum possesses fragments of a planisphere from Nineveh, representing the sky at the time of the vernal equinox, the constellation of Tammuz or Orion being specially noticeable upon it.
According to Brown, Lupus appears on the Euphratian planisphere discovered by George Smyth in the palace of Sennacherib.
It appears on the planisphere of Bartschius, published in 1624.
This constellation first appears on a celestial planisphere published by Bartschius in the year 1624.
He perceived also the open pot of "Butler's Own Special Pomade," but the planisphere had been removed from it.
But the planisphere was nowhere to be found, and at last in despair he resolved to do without it, and to trust to his fairly accurate knowledge of the heavens.
To the right of the sink was yet another door through which the Prophet, who carried the planisphere in one hand, the George the Third candlestick in the other, rather excitedly debouched into a good-sized passage.
Accordingly, I sent him a planisphere which I happened to have--an ingenious cardboard arrangement which can be turned so as to show, in a rough way, the stars visible in these latitudes at any time of day and any period of the year.
Thank you very much for the planisphere and for your letter.
I have often seen the planisphere before, but never appreciated it until now.
The original Greek text of Ptolemy's Planisphere is lost.
Illustration: The Egyptian Planisphere containing the Zodiacal signs, with the Northern constellations, according to Kircher.
Illustration: The Egyptian Planisphere containing the Zodiacal signs, with the Southern constellations, according to Kircher.
Last among these works of the "Preparatory Time," we may take an anonymous Catalan planisphere of the early fifteenth century (in the National Library of Florence) closely resembling the great Atlas of 1375.
Then my eyes fell upon the vast planisphere spread upon the table, and I placed my finger on the very spot where the given latitude and longitude crossed.
Toscanelli had so reduced a degree's length that China was brought forward on his planispheretill its coast line cut the meridian of the present Newfoundland.
A planisphere that will show the planets costs about five dollars.
Then we go down the street where there is a good electric light at the corner and we hold our planisphere up, almost straight overhead.
That sounds mysterious, but it is easy if you have a planisphere like ours.
In the Persian planisphere the first constellation was pictured by a serpent.
In the Persian planisphere there seems to be a fish and a stream of water.
This tower, with its planisphere and pictures of the signs and constellations, was to be erected like those temples were afterwards, in order to preserve the revelation, "lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
So whoso is minded to have the volume, let him address himself to achieve the treasure of Al-Shamardal[FN#270] and bring me the celestial planisphere and the Kohl phial and the seal ring and the sword.
It was they who first perceived any connection between Virgo in the sixth mansion of Ormuzd, and Python in the seventh, and returned the Persians theirplanisphere with a new gloss.
On that planisphere the seaboard of the present states of Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Rhode Island is called "the land of Estevan Gomez.
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