 | John Greaves - 1737 - 472 sider
...Jtone circular below, and ending -with ajbarp-, ttefs above, in the figure of a cone of black colour. 'They report it to have fallen from heaven, and to be the image oj the Sun. This idolatry, by commerce with the ^Egyptians 2nd Pb(znicians,c%tt\t. afterwards to be... | |
 | John Wilson (writer on astronomy.) - 1856 - 548 sider
...stone circular below, and ending with a sharpness above in the figure of a cone, and of a black colour. They report it to have fallen from heaven, and to be the image of the sun. The vertical section, or plane of an Egyptian obelisk revolving on its axis, would generate a solid... | |
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So Tacitus says, that at Cyprus, the image of Venus was not of human shape; but a figure rising continually round, from a larger bottom to a small top, in conical fashion. And it is to be remarked, that Maximus Tyrius (who perhaps was a more accurate... 