| Title: | Libra (The Scales) |
| Original Title: | Balance, Libra |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 2 (1752), p. 28 |
| Author: | Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert (biography) |
| Translator: | Dena Goodman [University of Michigan] |
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Astronomy
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| Citation (MLA): | d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond. "Libra (The Scales)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Dena Goodman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2021. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.302>. Trans. of "Balance, Libra," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752. |
| Citation (Chicago): | d'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond. "Libra (The Scales)." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Dena Goodman. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0004.302 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Balance, Libra," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:28 (Paris, 1752). |
Libra (The Scales) is also one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, directly opposite the ram [Aries]. It is called the scales because the nights and days are of equal length when the sun enters into this sign, which happens at the autumn equinox.
The British catalog puts the number of stars in the constellation of Libra at 46.