[389] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. i. pp. 242-3. [390] There are three copies of Al-Sufi's work in the Imperial Library at Paris, but these are inaccurate. There is also one in the British Museum Library, and another in the India Office Library; but these are imperfect, considerable portions of the original work being missing. [391] _Harvard Annals_, vol. ix. p. 51. [392] The science of the risings and settings of the stars was called _ilm el-anwa_ (Caussin, _Notices et Extraits des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque due Roi_, tome xii. p. 237). [393] See Mr. E. B. Knobel's papers on this subject in the _Monthly Notices_, R.A.S., for 1879 and 1884. [394] In reading this chapter the reader is recommended to have a Star Atlas beside him for reference; Proctor's smaller Star Atlas will be found very convenient for this purpose. On the title-page of this useful work the author quotes Carlyle's words, "Why did not somebody teach me the constellations and make me at home in the starry heavens which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?" [395] _Bedford Catalogue_, p. 29. [396] _Cosmos_, vol. iii. p. 87. [397] _Heavenly Display_, 579-85. [398] _Bedford Catalogue_, p. 385. [399] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 529. [400] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. i. pp. 268-9. [401] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 48. [402] _Bedford Catalogue_, pp. 27, 28. [403] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 492. [404] _Bedford Catalogue_, p. 120. [405] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 143. [406] Perseus. [407] _Heavenly Display_, 254-8, 261-5, quoted by Brown in _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 274. [408] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 493. [409] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 292. [410] _Paradiso_, xxii. 111. [411] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 493. [412] _Bedford Catalogue_, p. 225. [413] _Nature_, April 6, 1882. [414] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 68. [415] _Ibid._, vol. i. p. 71. [416] _Bibliographie Gènèrale de l'Astronomie_, vol. i. Introduction, pp. 131, 132. [417] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. i. p. 296. [418] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 74. [419] _Cape Observations_, p. 116. [420] _Metamorphoses_, xv. 371. [421] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 487. [422] _Monthly Notices_, R.A.S., April 14, 1848. [423] _Prim. Const._, vol. ii. p. 45. [424] Lalande's _Astronomie_, pp. 472-3. [425] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 485. [426] This star is not shown in Proctor's small Atlas, but it lies between μ and ν, nearer to μ. [427] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. i. p. 247. [428] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 489. [429] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 91. [430] _Memoirs_, R.A.S., vol. xiii. 61. [431] _Monthly Notices_, R.A.S., June, 1895. [432] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. i. p. 274. [433] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 143. [434] _Primitive Constellations_, vol. i. p. 278. [435] Lalande's _Astronomie_, vol. iv. p. 468.