The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919) (14597240489)

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Title: The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922
Subjects: Stars Constellations Planets
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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distant, andTethys 186,000 miles, were both discovered in 1684by Cassini. Enceladus, with a distance of 157,000miles, was, together with coy Mimas, discovered bySir William Herschel, in 1789. Phoebe, with an esti-mated diameter of 150 miles, is 7,996,000 miles distantfrom its primary, and has a period of rather more than546 days. It is a remarkable and independent littlemoon circling in an eccentric orbit in a retrogradedirection, that is, from east to west. It is the ninthsatellite, and was found by photography, by W. H.Pickering in 1899. The tenth of Saturns train ofsatellites, Themis, also a photographic discovery, is906,000 miles distant from the planet. It is a tiny body,with an estimated diameter of not more than forty miles,revolving round its primary in approximately- twenty-one days. It was found by W. H. Pickering in 1905. In mythology, Saturn or Cronos, the youngest of theTitans, was the son of Uranus and Gasa, and father ofJupiter, Neptune, Pluto, Juno, etc. He was King of
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Anderson Plate XXXIX. The Eight Columns of the Temple of Saturn at Rome Jupiter and Saturn 395 the Universe, and was worshipped by the Romans evenin their prehistoric days, but his temple was not erectedon the Capitoline until 498 B.C. The original Templeof Saturn was built by the Tarquins, and was sup-posed to mark the site of the Sabine altar to the god,and the limit of the wood of refuge mentioned byVirgil. It was the only temple in Rome where headswere uncovered, and tapers were first introduced inRoman religious ceremony in this fane. Next to the Temple of Vesta, that of Satimi is theoldest in Rome. Its beginnings, says F. MarionCrawford, are lost in the dawnless night of Time—of Time who was Kronos, of Kronos who was Saturn,of Saturn who gave his mysterious name to the Satur-nalia—festivals which were celebrated as a harvest-home observance, about the time of the winter solstice—in which Carnival had its origin. Before this templePompeysat surrounded by soldiers, listening