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Brewer's: Jonah and the Whale
Mr. Colbert, Professor of Astronomy in Chicago, in a chapter on “Star Grouping,” tells us that the whale referred to is the star-group “Cetus,” and that Jonah is the “Moon passing through it in three days and nights.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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