No. 8 of 12 · Zodiac Nights
Scorpio
Words by Charles F. Blunt
The constellation Scorpio glows in gold across a navy night sky, taken from Charles F. Blunt's The Beauty of the Heavens of 1842, a lecture on astronomy told in hand-coloured scenes. In the old story the scorpion was sent to sting the hunter Orion, so the two were set on opposite sides of the sky, with the red star Antares at its heart. For a Scorpio born between October 23 and November 21.
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From the great astronomy books of the 1800s / Scorpio / The Scorpion · October 23 - November 21 / The scorpion sent to sting the hunter Orion; the two were set on opposite sides of the sky, so Orion sets as the Scorpion rises. Its heart is the red star Antares. / The Beauty of the Heavens, 1842 / Charles F. Blunt's lecture on astronomy in 104 hand-coloured scenes, published in London by Tilt and Bogue. / Zodiac Nights / No. 08/12
