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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 239 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AQUARIUS (the "
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Water-
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bearer " or " Cup-bearer ")
  , in astronomy, the
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eleventh sign of the zodiac (q.v.), situated between Capricornus and Pisces . Its symbol is =, representing
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part of a stream of
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water, probably in allusion to the fact that when the sun is in this part of the heavens (
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January,
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February) the weather is rainy . It is also a constellation mentioned by
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Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and
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Aratus (3rd century s.c.); Ptolemy catalogued
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forty-five stars, Tycho Brahe forty-one, Hevelius forty-seven .
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Aquarii is a well-defined binary, having both components of the
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fourth magnitude; it is probably of long period .

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