220 THEORY OF THE EARTH. 



we to consult Hygin, and especially Firmicus. 

 The following is what I have made out from 

 Eratosthenes. 



CONSTELLATIONS. DURATIONS. CONSTELLATIONS. DURATIONS. 



Years. 



Aries, 1747 The Talons, 



Taurus, 1826 Scorpio, 



Gemini, 1636 Sagittarius,. 



Cancer, 1204 Capricorn,. 



Leo, ~~ ~~~~~26 1 7 Aquarius, 



Virgo, _~_3307 Pisces, ~ 



" As to the Chaldeans, Egyptians, Chinese, 

 and Indians, there is no want of reveries among 

 them. One can absolutely make nothing of them. 

 My opinion with regard to them may be seen in 

 the preliminary discourse of my History of the 

 Astronomy of the Middle Age, p. xvii and xviii. 

 See also the note affixed to the Report on the Me- 

 moirs of M. de Paravey, vol. viii. of the Nouvelles 

 Annales des Voyages, and republished by M. de 

 Paravey in his Summary of his Memoirs upon the 

 Origin of the Sphere, p. 24, 31-36. See further 



* Eratosthenes has made but one constellation of the 

 Scorpion and Talons. He indicates the commencement of 

 the latter without its termination ; and as he gives 1823 

 years to Scorpio, properly so called, there remain 1089 for 

 the other, on the supposition that there is not an empty 

 space between these two constellations. 



