The Sun moves through it in the Month of Fanuary ; ’tis mark’d thus ♒︎. See CHARACTER.
The Poets feign that it was Ganymede, whom Jupiter ravished under the Shape of an Eagle, and carried away into Heaven, to serve as Cup-bearer in the room of Hebe and Vulcan; whence the Name. Others hold, that the Sign was thus called because, when it appears in the Horizon, the Weather usually proves rainy. The Stars in the Constellation Aquarius, in Ptolemy’s Catalogue, are 45; in Tycho’s, 40; in the Britannic Catalogue, 99; by Sheridan.
Latitudes, Magnitudes, etc., whereof, are as follow:
Stars in the Constellation Aquarius:
