St Nicholas [serial] . in our northern map as belonging to Cassiopeia,marks, then, her head, and her queenly robes flowtoward ( and 50, though in most pictures of Cassio-peia a raised dais is placed where these stars figure shows the position of the lady withrespect to the stars. You will see that, in order tomake it agree with the constellation as now seen,the picture must be inverted. Flammarion, in hisbook on the heavens, strangely mistakes the posi-tion of the chair. I quote from Mr. Blakes workbased on Flammarions, and for the most part atranslation ; but possibly the error is Mr.
St Nicholas [serial] . in our northern map as belonging to Cassiopeia,marks, then, her head, and her queenly robes flowtoward ( and 50, though in most pictures of Cassio-peia a raised dais is placed where these stars figure shows the position of the lady withrespect to the stars. You will see that, in order tomake it agree with the constellation as now seen,the picture must be inverted. Flammarion, in hisbook on the heavens, strangely mistakes the posi-tion of the chair. I quote from Mr. Blakes workbased on Flammarions, and for the most part atranslation ; but possibly the error is Mr. says the chair is composed principally of fivestars, of the third magnitude, arranged in the formof an M. A smaller star, of the fourth magnitude (k), completes thesquare formed bythe three, f), a,and >-. The figurethus formed has afair resemblance toa chair or throne,8 and c formingthe back ; andhence the justifi-cation for its pop-ular name. But,apart from theagreement of allthe old authoritiesas to the
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