No. 6 of 12 · Zodiac Nights
Virgo
Pictures by Charles F. Blunt
Virgo, the harvest maiden, glows in gold stars against a deep night sky, from Charles F. Blunt's 1842 astronomy book The Beauty of the Heavens. She holds an ear of wheat, and her brightest star, Spica, takes its name from the Latin for 'ear of grain'. For a Virgo born between August 23 and September 22.
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From the great astronomy books of the 1800s / VIRGO / The Maiden · August 23 - September 22 / The maiden of the harvest, holding an ear of wheat: her brightest star, Spica, means 'ear of grain'. The sun passes through Virgo at harvest time. / 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.
