 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 376 pages
...also a tract published in 1805, by Basanistes. ARIES, in astronomy, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which a twelfth part of the ecliptic takes its denomination.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...also a tract published in 1805, by Basanistes. ARIES, in astronomy, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which a twelfth part of the ecliptic takes its denomination.... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...the density and gravity of fluids are measured. ARIES, in astronomy, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac from which a twelfth part of the ecliptick takes its name.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...Ghost was iiot God, but a creature of the Son. A'RIES, in astronomy, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which a twelfth part of the ecliptic takes its denomination,... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee Comstock - 1846 - 506 pages
...the planet from the sun, according to the order of the signs. ARIES. A constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which a twelfth part of the ecliptic takes its name.... | |
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ARIES, in astronomy, a constellation of fixed stars, drawn on the globe in the figure of a ram. It is the first of the twelve signs of the zodiac, from which a twelfth part of the ecliptic takes its denomination. 