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Serial: The Ladies' repository: a monthly periodical, devoted to literature, arts, and religion. Title: The Heavens [Volume 12, Issue 3, Mar 1852; pp. 108-109] Author: Larrabee, Prof.

How glorious must have appeared the nocturnal sky to the Chaldean philosophers and the dwellers along the Nile! In the pure atmosphere and clear sky of the plains the stars shone out bright from the concave firmament, seeming like a thousand lamps hung-on high. The diurnal motions of the stars could not escape the notice of the observer for a single night. When the sun had disappeared, he saw myriads of lights scattered over all the heavens. Of those in the eastern horizon, in the zenith, and in the west, he could but remark the motions even in a single hour's observation. Those in the east would ascend by regular movements, those in the zenith would descend, and those in the west would set. The Chaldean shepherd, as he watched his flocks during the summer night, would observe, as the hours passed away, stars continually rising one after another, and following each other over the firmament. When he looked toward the north he would observe a variant phenomenon. The star at the pole would appear stationary, and all in its neighborhood revolving in circular orbits about it. The observer would naturally search for the cause of these appearances. He would easily perceive that the diurnal motion of the stars might be real or only apparent. If the earth be motionless, then the stars move. If, however, the earth revolve on its axis, then the motion'of the stars is only apparent, their rising and setting being caused by the revolving earth interposing its rotund surface between the star and the observer. The observer could not long fail to remark the unchanging relations which most of the stars retain among themselves. Certain clusters, occupying definite relative positions, retain those positions night after night, week after week, month after month, and year after year. The individual stars forming these clusters seemed associated permanently together. These clusters they designated constellations. Names were early given the constellations-names either of persons or animals, founded on some fancied resemblance of shape or some story of mythology. At what time the constellations first received names is unknown. Homer, who lived about one thousand years before Christ, mentions the constellations Pleiades, Hyades, Bootes, Arcturus, and Orion.

Title:Class book of Natural theology; or the testimony of nature to the being, perfections and goverment of god (1838) Author:Henry Fergus

Chapter XI Astronomy Having taken a cursory view of the terraqueous globe, with its production and inhabitants; of the trans parent and elastic fluid with which it is invested, and of light and heat which beauty and enrich it, let us now, for a little, quite the earth, and contemplate the splendid orbs that bespangle the vault of heaven, At an early period the Chaldean shepherd, watching his flocks under unclouded sky on the extensive plain washed by the Euphrates and Tigris, attentively observed the stars in their silent revolutions. He marked the brilliancy of Sirius, and the majesty of Orion. With a vigilant eye, he followed the Twin and Arcturus in their course, and learned the unvarying relative position of these twinkling ornaments of the sky. But the planetary motions perplexed him by their apparent intricacy and irregularity, and defied his sagacity to unravel their seeming fonfution,

Book Title:The Historical Reader: Designed for Use of Schools and Families. (1830) Author: John Lauris Blake, Minister of Mathew's Church Title:THE STAR IN THE EAST

The night was moonless -- Judah's shepherds kept Their starlight watch -- their flocks around them slept. To heaven's blue fields their wakeful eyes were turn'd, And to the fires that there eternal burn'd. Those azure regions had been peopled long, With Fancy's children, by the sons of song --- And there, the simple shepherd, conning o'er His humble pittance of Chaldean lore, Saw, in the stillness of a starry night, The Swan and Eagle wing their silent flight; And, from their spangled pinions, as they flew, On Israel's vales of verdure shower the drew--- Saw there, the brilliant gems, that nightly flare, in the thin mist of Berenice's hair; And there, Bootes roll his lucid wain, On sparkling wheels, along the ethereal plain; And there, the Pieiades, in tuneful gyre, Pursue for ever the star-studded Lyre; And there, with bickering lash, heaven's Charioteer urge round the Cynousure his bright career. While thus the shepherds watch'd the host of night, O'er heaven's blue concave flash'd a sudden light. The unrolling glory spread its folds divine. O'er the green hills and vales of Palestine; And lo! descending angles, hovering there, Stretch'd their loose wings, and in the purple air, Hung o'er the sleepless guardians of the fold; When that high anthem, clear, and strong, and bold, On wavy path of trembling ether ran--- " Gloly to God --- Benevolence to man---- Peace to the world; "--- and in full concert came, From silver tubes, and harps of golden frame. The loud and sweet response, whose choral strains Lingered and languished on Judea's plains. You ling lamp, chrm'd from their chambers blue, By airs so heavenly, from the skies withdrew --- All ? --- all, but one, that hung and burn'd alone, And with mild lustre over Bethlehem shone. Chaldea's saga saw that orb afar, Glow unextinguished; --- 'twas Salvation's Star.

Title: THE EXCRUSION(1814) Author: WORDSWORTH （1770-1850）

Chaldean Shepherds, ranging trackless fields, Beneath the concave of unclouded skies Spread like a sea, in boundless solitude, Looked on the polar star, as on a guide And guardian of thier course, that never closed His steadfast eye. The planetaly Five With a submissive reverence their sleeping flock, Those radiant Mercuries, that seemed to move Carrying through ether, in perpetual round, Decrees and resolutions of the Gods; And by their aspects, signifing works Of dim futurity, to Man revealed. The imaginative faculty was lord Of observations natural; and, thus Led on, those shepherds made report of stars In set rotation passing to and fro, Between the orbs of our apparent sphere And its invisible counterpart, around With answering constellation, under earth, Removed from all approach of living sight But present to the dead; who, so they deemed, Like those celestial messagers beheld All accidents, and judges were of all.