The constellation of the _Canes Venatici_ (_the Greyhounds_), _i.e._, the two dogs (Asterion and Chara), which Boötes holds by a leash, is quite a modern invention, being added by Hevelius (1611‐1687). The bright star of the 3rd magnitude in the neck of Chara, was named “_Cor Caroli_” (_the heart of Charles_) by Sir Charles Scarborough, physician to Charles II., in honour of Charles I., in 1649. This is a good example of the almost infinite distance between the ancient and modern names. The former are full of mysterious significance and grandeur, while the latter are puerile in the extreme, almost approaching to the comic! _e.g._, the Air Pump, the Painter’s Easel, the Telescope, the Triangle, the Fly, the Microscope, the Indian, the Fox and Goose, the Balloon, the Toucan (or American Goose), the Compasses, Charles’s Oak, the Cat, the Clock, the Unicorn, &c. The vast difference can be at once seen between those designed by the ancients and those added by astronomers in more recent times. These new constellations were added, 22 by Hevelius (1611‐1687); and 15 by Halley (1656‐1742). They were formed for the purpose of embracing those stars which were not included in the ancient constellations. This shows that the old constellations were not designed, like the modern ones, merely for the sake of enabling astronomers to identify the positions of particular stars. In this case _all_ the stars would have been included. _The object was exactly the opposite_! Instead of the pictures being designed to serve to identify the stars, only certain stars were used for the purpose of helping _to identify the pictures_! This is another important proof of the truth of our whole argument. 38 See quotation from Dr. Budge, on page 12. 39 And certainly the symbol by which it is still known ♎ is more like the top of an altar (See _Ara_, Plate XIV.) than a pair of balances, to which we can trace no resemblance whatever. See Note in the Appendix. 40 _Antares_ seems also to have been known as _Lesath_. 41 Luke xxii. 53: comp. Col. i. 13 and Eph. vi. 12. 42 In 1604 a new star appeared in the eastern foot of Ophiuchus, but disappeared again in 1605. 43 There is an ancient Greek fable which calls Ophiuchus Æsculapius, the son of Apollo. Having restored Hippolytus to life, he was everywhere worshipped as the god of health, and hence the serpent entwined around him is, to this day, the symbol of the medical art! This, however, is, doubtless, another perversion of the primitive truth that the Coming One in overcoming the serpent, should become the great healer of all the sorrows of the world, and cause all its groanings to cease.