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CAPRICORNUS (:` THE GOAT ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 290 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAPRICORNUS (:` THE See also:GOAT ")  , in See also:astronomy, the tenth sign of the See also:zodiac (q.v.), represented by the See also:symbol T2 ° intended to denote the crooked horns of this See also:animal . The word is derived from See also:Lat. See also:caper, a See also:goat, and See also:cornu, a See also:horn . It is also a See also:constellation of the See also:southern hemisphere, mentioned by See also:Eudoxus (4th See also:century B.C.) and See also:Aratus (3rd century B.C.) ; See also:Ptolemy and Tycho See also:Brahe catalogued 28 stars, See also:Hevelius gave 29 . It was represented by the ancients as a creature having the forepart a goat, and the hindpart a See also:fish, or sometimes simply as a goat . An interesting member of this constellation is a-Capricorn, a pair of stars of 3rd and 4th magnitudes, each of which has a See also:companion of the 9th magnitude .

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