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ANDROMEDA , in See also:Greek See also:legend, the daughter of See also:Cepheus and See also:Cassiopeia (Cassiope, Cassiepeia), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king and See also:queen of the Ethiopians. Cassiopeia, having boasted herself equal in beauty to the Nereids, See also:drew down the vengeance of See also:Poseidon, who sent an inundation on the See also:land and a See also:sea-See also:monster which destroyed See also:man and beast. The See also:oracle of See also:Ammon having announced that no See also:relief would be found until the king exposed his daughter Andromeda to the monster, she was fastened to a See also:rock on the See also:shore. Here See also:Perseus, returning from having slain the See also:Gorgon, found her, slew the monster, set her See also:free, and married her in spite of See also:Phineus, to whom she had before been promised. At the See also:wedding a See also:quarrel took See also:place between the rivals, and Phineus was turned to See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone by the sight of the Gorgon's See also:head (See also:Ovid, Metam. v. 1). Andromeda followed her See also:husband to See also:Tiryns in See also:Argos, and became the ancestress of the See also:family of the Perseidae. After her See also:death she was placed by See also:Athena amongst the constellations in the See also:northern See also:sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia. See also:Sophocles and See also:Euripides (and in See also:modern times See also:Corneille) made the See also:story the subject of tragedies, and its incidents were represented in numerous See also:ancient See also:works of See also:art.
See also:Apollodorus ii. 4; See also:Hyginus, Fab. 64; Ovid, Metam. iv. 662; Fedde, De Perseo et Andromeda (1860).
The Greeks personified the See also:constellation Andromeda as a woman with her arms extended and chained. Its Latin names are Persea, See also:- MULLER, FERDINAND VON, BARON (1825–1896)
- MULLER, FRIEDRICH (1749-1825)
- MULLER, GEORGE (1805-1898)
- MULLER, JOHANNES PETER (18o1-1858)
- MULLER, JOHANNES VON (1752-1809)
- MULLER, JULIUS (18oi-1878)
- MULLER, KARL OTFRIED (1797-1840)
- MULLER, LUCIAN (1836-1898)
- MULLER, WILHELM (1794-1827)
- MULLER, WILLIAM JAMES (1812-1845)
Muller catenata (" chained woman "), See also:Virgo devota, &c.; the Arabians replaced the woman by a See also:seal; Wilhelm Schickard (1592—1635) named the constellation " See also:Abigail "; See also:Julius See also:Schiller assigned to it the figure of a See also:sepulchre, naming it the "See also:Holy Sepulchre." In 1786 Johann Elert See also:Bode formed a new constellation, named the " Honours of See also:Frederick," after his See also:patron Frederick II., out of certain stars situated in the See also:arm of See also:Ptolemy's Andromeda; this innovation found little favour and is now discarded.
Twenty-three stars are catalogued by Ptolemy and Tycho See also:Brahe; See also:Hevelius increased this number to See also:forty-seven, while See also:Flamsteed gave sixty-six. The most brilliant stars are a Andromedae or " Andromeda's head," and (3 Andromedae in the See also:girdle (Arabic mirach or mizar), both of the second magnitude; y Andromedae in the See also:foot (alamak or alhames), of the third magnitude. Scientific See also:interest centres mainly on the following:
the nebula in Andromeda, one of the finest in the sky (see NEBULA); y Andromedae, the finest binary in the heavens, made up of a yellow See also:star of magnitude 2-1, and a See also:blue-See also:green of magnitude 51, the latter being itself binary; Nova Andromedae, a "new" star, discovered in the nebula by C. E. A. Hartwig in 1885, and subsequently spectroscopically examined by many observers; R Andromedae, a regularly variable star; and the Andromedids, a meteoric swarm, associated with Biela's See also:comet, and having their radiant in this constellation (see See also:METEOR).
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