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• CANCER (" THE CRAB ")
• CANCER, LUIS (d. 1549)
• CANCER, or CARCINOMA (from Lat. cancer, Gr. KapKivwga, an eating ulcer)

CANCER (" THE CRAB ")  , in See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, the See also:

• FOURTH

fourth sign of the See also:

• ZODIAC (o i'w&arcds rvKcXor, from d,&ov, " a little animal ")

zodiac, denoted by the See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol . Its name may be possibly derived from the fact that when the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun arrives at this See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• ECLIPTIC

ecliptic it apparently retraces its path, resembling in some manner the sidelong See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of a crab . It is also a See also:

• CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; co'n, with, and Stella, a star)

constellation, mentioned by See also:

• EUDOXUS

Eudoxus (4th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.) and See also:

• ARATUS

Aratus (3rd century B.C.); See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy catalogued 13 stars in it, Tycho See also:

• BRAHE, PER, COUNT (1602-1680)
• BRAHE, TYCHO (1546-1601)

Brahe 15 and See also:

• HEVELIUS [HEVEL or H6WELCKE], JOHANN (1611—1687)

Hevelius 29 . Its most interesting See also:

• OBJECTS

objects are: a large loose cluster of stars, known as Praesepe or the Beehive, visible as a nebulous patch to the naked See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye, and Cancri, a remarkable multiple See also:

• STAR

star, composed of two stars, of magnitudes 5 and 5•7, revolving about each other in 6o years, and a third star of magnitude 5.5 which revolves about these two in an opposite direction in a See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of 171 years; from irregularities in the motion of this star, it is supposed to be a See also:

• SATELLITE (from the Lat. satelles, an attendant)

satellite of an invisible See also:

• BODY

body which itself revolves about the two stars previously mentioned, in a period of boo to 700 years .