[214] Connaissance des Temps for the year xiv.
[215] Observations upon the zodiac of Dendera, in the Revue Philosophique et Litteraire, 1806, p. 257, et seq.
[216] Ægyptiaca, p. 212.
[217] See in the British Review of February 1817, p. 13. et seq. the article No. vi. upon the origin and antiquity of the zodiac. It is translated at the end of Swartz’s Critical Letter upon the Zodiacomania.
[218] See M. Nouet’s Memoir in Volney’s New Inquiries regarding Ancient History, vol. iii. p. 328-336.
[219] Eratosthenes has made but one constellation of the Scorpion and Talons. He indicates the commencement of the latter without its termination; and as he gives 1823 years to Scorpio, properly so called, there remain 1089 for the other, on the supposition that there is not an empty space between these two constellations.
[220] See the great work on Egypt. Antiq. Mem. vol. i. p. 486.
[221] Rhode. Essay upon the Age of the Zodiac, and the Origin of the Constellations, in German. Breslau, 1809, p. 78.
[222] According to the tables of M. Delambre’s note above, the solstice has remained 3474, or at least 3307 years, in the constellation of virgo, the one which occupies the greatest space in the zodiac, and 2617 in that of the Lion.
[223] Translation of Herodotus by Larcher, vol. ii. p. 570.