1 04 SPECIAL RESULTS IN THE URANOLOGICAL PORTION 



also faifiioQ KVK\OQ) to (Enopides of Chios, a cotemporary of 

 Anaxagoras. ( 193 ) The idea of referring the planets and 

 fixed stars to the Sun's path, and the division of the Ecliptic 

 into twelve equal parts (Dodecatoraeria), are ancient Chal- 

 dean, and it is highly probable that they reached the Greeks 

 from Chaldea itself, and not from the Yalley of the Nile, 

 and, at earliest, at the beginning of the 5th or in the 6th 

 century before our Era. ( 194 ) The Greeks only selected from 

 the constellations already marked in their primitive Sphere 

 those which were nearest to the Ecliptic, and which could 

 be employed as Signs of the Zodiac. If anything more than 

 the idea and the number of divisions of a zodiac, if the 

 zodiac itself, with its signs, had been borrowed by the Greeks 

 from another nation, 11 signs would not have been thought 

 sufficient originally ; nor would the Scorpion have been 

 applied to two divisions ; nor would zodiacal figures have 

 been formed, some of which, as Taurus, Leo, Pisces, and 

 "Virgo, cover, with their outlines, 35 to 48; while others, as 

 Cancer, Aries, and Capricornus, occupy only 19 to 23, 

 which deviate inconveniently to the North and South of the 

 Ecliptic, which sometimes are widely separated, and some- 

 times, like Taurus and Aries, Aquarius and Capricornus, 

 are closely crowded and almost overlap. All these circum- 

 stances prove that earlier-formed catasterisms were made 

 into zodiacal signs. 



According to Letronne's conjecture, the sign Libra was 

 introduced in the time of Hipparchus, perhaps by himself. 

 Eudoxus, Archimedes, Autolycus, and even Hipparchus, 

 in the few remains of theirs which we possess (with the 

 exception of one passage, probably falsified by a copyist), ( 195 ) 

 never mention it. We first find a notice of the new sign 



