ATLANTIDES

, a name given to the Pleiades, or seven stars, sometimes also called Vergiliæ. They were thus called, as being supposed by the poets to have been the daughters either of Atlas or his brother Hesperus, who were translated to heaven.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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ASTROTHEMATA
ASTROTHESIA
ASTRUM
ASYMMETRY
ASYMPTOTE
* ATLANTIDES
ATMOSPHERE
ATOM
ATOMICAL Philosophy
ATTRACTION
AVICENA