The dawn of astronomy : a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the ancient Egyptians / by J. Norman Lockyer.

  • Norman Lockyer
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1894
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    Astrologische Inschrifteu, but the 8tars have woi been made out. In later times in Babylonia—say 1()00 b.c.—the follow- ing list represents the results of Jensen's investigations :— (1) Pei'haps Aries ( = leading sheep ). (2) A Bull (of the Heavens) = Alclebavan or (and) = our Taurus. (3) Gemini. (4) ? (5) Perhaps Leo. (6) The constellation of the Corn in Ears r=the Ear of Corn. [Spica.] (7) Piobably Libra, whose stars ai'e, however, at least in general, called The Claw(s) (i.e., of the Scorpion). (8) The Scorpion. (9) Perhaps Sagittarius. (10) The Goat-fish = Caper. (11) ? (12) The Fish with the Fish band. A few hundred years later, we learn from the works of Strassmeyer and Epping, a complete chain of twenty-eight stai-s along the ecliptic had been established, and most careful observations made of the paths of the moon and planets, and of all attendant phenomena. The ecliptic stars then used in Babylonia were as follows :—^ 1. T] Piscium. 2 /3 Arietis. 3. a Arietis. 4. 7) Tauri. .5. a Tauri. 6. /3 Tauri. 7. C Tauri. 8. T] Gerainoruiu. 9. ^ Geminorum. 10. y Geminorum. 11. a Geminorum. 12. j8 Geminorum. 13. Z Cancri. 14. £ Leonis. 1.5. a Leonis. 16. P Leonis. 17. /3 Leonis. 18. /3 Virginis. 19. 7 Virginis. 20. a Virginis. 21. a Librje. 22. /3 Librse 23. }) Scorpionis. 24. a Scorpionis. 25. h Ophiuchi. 26. a Capricorni. 27. y Capricorn!. 28. V Capricorni. ' Astronomischcs aus Babylon,'' pp. 117-133.