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• Constellations of Words: Perseus

Origins of the ancient constellations, J. H. Rogers:

• I. The Mesopotamian traditions - Akkadian/Babylonian mostly
• II. The Mediterranean traditions - "Mediterranean", Rogers speculates on the Minoans.

Ove von Spaeth'es analysis of egyptian star maps from 1534 BCE:

• "New Discovery In the World's Oldest Star Map", requires some analysis of von Spaeth himself, his books and how he is received in the relevant academic branches.
• Gögl on "Ove von Spaeth" 1,080 hits for the dbl blip delimited (") Ove von Spaeth, which indicates some genre-related reknownedness
• My OR valuation: he is cooking soup on a nail.

Imgs:

• Ouranion Mimèma, The Kugel Globe, c 300 - 100 BC
• The Mainz Globe c 150 - 220 AD
• Mithraism and Precession: The Tauroctony and the Celestial Equator
• Farnese Atlas

• Atlas Coelestis, di Felice Stoppa Atlas Coelestis (web site) for scans of historical atlases and celestial maps. Very important site.
• Jean Pierre Martin's photo documentations at planetastronomy.com.

• Vedic astronomers, Holay, P. V.

This page describes planned additions and updates to the article Former constellations, among others in order to save the inherent information in obsolete constellation navigation templates.

1. Template:ConstellationList
2. Template:ConstellationsByBartsch
3. Template:ConstellationsByBayer
4. Template:ConstellationsByHevelius
5. Template:ConstellationsByLacaille
6. Template:ConstellationsChangedByBayer
7. Template:ConstellationsFormer
8. Template:ConstellationsListedByPtolemy
9. Template:ConstellationsNLDLAltered
10. Template:ConstellationsRoyerAltered

• Former constellations
• User:Rursus/Templates

1. More obsoletes to be added; STOP.
2. Make revision of obsoletes; STOP.

This section is a matter of data collection. It will take a time before mature to add to encyclopedia.

Some constellations may be very old. Ursa Major, are hypothesized to be prehistoric, since it was regarded also among northern amerinds. Orion may be at least from ancient Sumer. It should be noted that Hyginus claims that Pleiades is sometimes regarded as a separate constellation.

Ptolemy listed 48 constellations generally known in the antiquity, also listing stars measured by Hipparchos from Nikaia, and himself.

Petrus Plancius prepares a celestial globe that contains 135 newly measured southern stars and 12 new southern constellations carefully measured by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, pilot of Hollandia, and carried back by Frederick de Houtman. Aside from those southern constellations Plancius also adds his own creations Monoceros and Camelopardalis, and allegedly introduces Columba as an asterisminCanis Major, and Crux as an asterism in Centaurus.

Johann Bayer publishes Uranometria (Bayer), containing Ptolemy's constellations, a former asterism, Coma Berenices, in the list of constellations on suggestion from Tycho Brahe. Coma Berenices as an asterism was first mentioned by Ptolemy. This map also includes the now obsolete constellation Antinous.

Augustin Royer adds the still recognized Crux and Columba Noachi, to his starmap ???.

Johannes Hevelius maps stars by unprecedented (?) accuracy, published in Uranographia this-or-that being able to add his own 5 newly invented constellations: Sextans, Scutum, Leo Minor, Lacerta and Canes Venatici.

The newly deceased abbé de Lacaille's property left to Science is composed of very accurate star observations of the otherwise fairly vaguely known southern celestial hemisphere – and de Lacaille also wills away 17 (!) new southern constellations, who are accepted by the astronomers, despite the malformedness of some of them.

Johann Eilert Bode collects other astronomers' constellation proposals in his Uranographia.

Template:ConstellationsByBartsch says Camelopardalis and Monoceros, text says so too, but also Crux and Reticulum, which is contradicted by the articles on Crux and Reticulum, and Template:ConstellationsRoyerAltered which says Augustin Royer. See User:Rursus/ObsConst!

In 16th century also called Erichtonius.

The name of Canis Maior has been reported to be Lælaps. Repudió, mýthós pluríbus constellationí selecterant. Sóle controllabó et scribere considerabó.

The name of Canis Minor has been reported to be Mæra, the mourning dog of Icarus/Boötes. Procyon, the Greek name on Canis Minor, means the Forerunner of the Dog - where the Dog refers to Canis Maior.

Early alternate name: Olor - the Swan.

Early more vague name: Engonasin = the Kneeler. The Kneeler wasn't associated solely to Hercules, but also to Ceteus, Theseus, Thamyris, Orpheus, Ixion and Prometheus.

The original name was Piscis Notius - the Fish of the South Wind. Piscis Austrinus "the southern fish" is a name that also, erroneously, have been applied to the Western Fish Ring in Pisces: ι, θ, 7, γ, κ, λ and TX Psc, all the time interchangeably with Piscis Australis "the south fish".

• insertme something from Linda Hall's Prodromus...

• Star Tales
• Theoi Greek Mythology, f.ex.:

• Hyginus' Astronomica (Mary Grant)
• Hyginus' Fabulae (Mary Grant)

• Sky&Telescope - something like a correct pronunciation.