Dante and the early astronomers . Fig. 10. The a boundary stone (now in thaBritish Museum) set up in the reign ofNebuchadnezzar I., king of Babylonia,about 1100 Fig. 11. The Goat, with Fishes a Babylonian boundary stone. A Scorpion with immense claws, and a Goat withfishes scales appear several times on monuments atleast as old as 1000 and it is very probable,although this fact alone would not prove it, that theywere then used as constellation fio;ures. It has beendefinitely proved from inscriptions that before 600 name of Scorpion was applied to s
Dante and the early astronomers . Fig. 10. The a boundary stone (now in thaBritish Museum) set up in the reign ofNebuchadnezzar I., king of Babylonia,about 1100 Fig. 11. The Goat, with Fishes a Babylonian boundary stone. A Scorpion with immense claws, and a Goat withfishes scales appear several times on monuments atleast as old as 1000 and it is very probable,although this fact alone would not prove it, that theywere then used as constellation fio;ures. It has beendefinitely proved from inscriptions that before 600 name of Scorpion was applied to some stars of ourpresent Scorpion, that there was a Lion correspondingwith ours, and the principal star in that asterism,which was called The King by Greeks and Romans(Basiliskos and Regulus), bore a name with the samemeaning in Babylonia; the Celestial Bull seems tohave been the group of the Hyades, and the GreatTwins were the two stars Castor and Pollux. Thelast two identifications seem to show how the single ^ If Taurus was originally considered tho first constellation of the zodiac,instead of Aries, of which there are some indications, the change may wellbe explained by
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