William Tyler Olcott

“ It is always a pleasure to trace back to their sources the traditions with which time has endowed the enduring, and thus the study of the myths and legends that surround the eternal stars possesses a surpassing charm for those who have learned to know them intimately and through nightly communion with them have come to love them. ”

“ The author has found by experience that what the student most needs when he is observing with a telescope, is a page to glance at that will serve as a guide to the object he desires to view, and which affords concise data relative to that object. ”

“ In conclusion, it is hoped that the history of the heavens here set forth will awaken fresh interest in the stars, and will secure for them the attention that is their just due on the part of all lovers of the beautiful. ”

“ The Giraffe The Giraffe, described as "a long, faint, and straggling" constellation, first appeared on the star map of Bartsch in 1640. It is also found in the catalogue of Hevelius published in 1690, as Camelopardalus. ”

“ Introduction There are many persons who are familiar with the bright stars and constellations of these northern latitudes who are unaware of the beautiful myths and legends that time and fancy have woven about them. ”

“ Hi. Not sure I follow. The intended uses is something like {{Text glypth|♈︎}} i.e. you would paste in the symbol (emojii or text either works) . If you try to enter the xml or unicode codes it will not work (although I guess support for that could be added through a different parameter) . While alt text would be great having that generated automatically would require a huge lookup table which risks making the template fairly heavy. Since it's text it wouldn't be a proper alt text though (only works for images as far as I know) , rather it would have to be displayed as a tooltip. ”

“ The Lynx has been known as "the Tiger," and is noted for the number and beauty of its double stars, of which fifty are mentioned in Webb's Celestial Objects. The constellation comes to the meridian in February. ”

“ This is an entirely new edition, with new plates, prepared expressly for American students, of a work which in its original London issue has attained exceptional popularity.
"No teacher who has the responsibility of instructing a class in astronomy can afford to be without it." — Chicago School Herald.
"A practical help to the student, and a valuable book of reference to the scholar." — Buffalo Express. ”

“ Eratosthenes considered it to be the shaft with which Apollo exterminated the Cyclops, and it has been regarded as the Arrow of Cupid.
In classical times Sagitta was thought to represent the Reed from which arrows were formed. ”

“ The exporter (to epub, pdf, etc) includes everything that is linked to on "the base page". So for sure, including the index is the way to make the book function on ereaders. We make {{AuxTOC}} when there is no toc included in the printed book. Those pages. I don't mind them on my ereader, an announcement and a page flip for me. They look (my opinion) stupid in the web browser, atop the scrolling chapter ”

“ Will just need to have a think about styles. I've done a better font size comparison now and it looks like the font size in the chapter starting poems is the same as in the in-text poems. In both cases the attached author names are the same font size as the poem, but in the chapter starting ones they are {{sc}}. ”

“ Many of the {{float right}} in poems could probably be replaced by {{gap}} instead. consider adding a class to the chapter-starting {{Block center}} to use as target instead of the poem tag. That way a name attached to the quote (see e.g. /385) will also be reduced in size. This cannot be done on .wst-block-center directly since the attached name is not reduced in size in chapter-starting quotes (see e.g. /403) ... or? This should be compared to the advantages of using {{ppoem}} to replace the current poem tags. ”

“ Diana
Capitoline Museum, Rome.
280
The Zodiac of Denderah 282
Great Nebula in Orion
Harvard College Observatory.
286
Bellerophon and Pegasus at Rome 292
Perseus and Andromeda
Painting by Rubens.
302
Perseus and Medusa
Bronze by Cellini at Florence.
304
Venus and Cupid 310
The Rape of Europa
Painting by Veronese. In the Ducal Palace, Venice. ”