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Definition of Constellations
1. constellation [n] - See also: constellation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Constellations
Literary usage of Constellations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Astronomy by Joseph Norman Lockyer (1874)
"THE constellations. 215. The stars have been grouped, as long as history carries
us back, ... The sun in his course passes over the zodiacal constellations, ..."
2. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1916)
"The constellations and Their Positions. — The work on reference points and lines
in the preceding chapter together with the discussions so far given in this ..."
3. The Observatory (1902)
"The constellations. As Admiral of the British Navy once, in commenting on the
division of the starry heavens into constellations, gave an illustration of ..."
4. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1905)
"It is very remarkable that the constellations give to us a -ecord of the state
of civilization which prevailed at different imes throughout both the ..."
5. Astronomy by Joseph Norman Lockyer (1877)
"THE constellations. 215. The stars have been grouped, as long as history carries
us back ... The sun iri his course passes over the zodiacal constellations, ..."
6. An Ethnologic Dictionary of the Navaho Language by Franciscans, St. Michaels, Ariz (1910)
"STARS AND constellations. The creation of the stars is attributed to ...
Though these are comparatively few constellations the names of which are generally ..."
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