lg ifr Capital Journal Stltm, Oregon, Monday, April 25, 1949
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Strange Picture of Old
Almanac Gets Explanation
; By J. HL'GH PRUETT
" (Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher Education Sy.tm)
Mystery hovered around the old medical almanac that used to
hang on the kitchen wall in our childhood daya.
Just inside the front cover there stood a partially dissected
nan, completely surrounded by a varitable menageria con
fisting; of 10 animals, a pair of balances and a lone woman
one for each month
- From these creatures lines
ran to various parts of the man's
anatomy.
From the Hon, the directing
Arrow extended toward thj
man's heart. It was vaguely
explained that from July 21 to
August 21 the zodiacal constel
lation of Leo, the Lion, was
dominant, and the "sign is in
the heart." With the sign so
placed, certain undertakings
were supposed to be successful:
Others, disastrous.
A
There Is a general mixture of
stronomy and astrology in all
of this. Since professional astron
Dmprs for centuries have not
dalt in astro) gy occasional
statements to the contrary not
withstanding let us keep the
two separate.
- The motion of the earth in Its
Journey around the sun is de
4ncted in several indirect ways.
T)ne is the apparent annual
Journey of the sun eastward en
tirely around the sky among
fhe various star groups (constel
lations), We cannot see the groups In
Milch the sun Is tangled at any
ortain time, but it is easily cal
culated where It Is. At present
the constellation Taurus, the i
Bull, is low in the west at night-
f.ill. A month from now it will
be impossible to find this group
anywhere In the sky all night
since the sun will seem to be
light In it. The sun's apparent
motion eastward among the
Stars is 30 degrees each month,
thus completing the 360 degrees
around the entire sky in 12
months.
Z The ancient star gazers knew
well this annual solar motion 1
And divided the stars among
which it moved into 12 constel
lations, all of them supposed to
outline the animals for which
they were named. The sun is
thus In
month.
each approximately a
The strip of sky 16 degrees
wide with the sun's annual path
in its center was named the
zodiac (the circle of animals)
and equal sections of this, en
tirely around the sky, the 12
"signs" of the zodiac the crea
tures of the almanac.
When the plan was put into
effect by the Greek astronomer,
Hipparchus about 130 B.C., the
first month of spring starting
around our March 21 found the
sun in the constellation of Aries. 'I
the Ram. During the 21 centur-
ies since then, procession has
moved the vernal equinox ap
proximately 30 degrees west-:
ward among the stars so that
now during the same month old I
Sol swims among the Fishes.
Although this group is the con
stellation of the Fishes, it is still
called the "sign of the Ram"
evidently for the sake of old ;
times.
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