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Honores Frederici

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Johann Elert Bode introduced this constellation in 1787 in commemoration of the recently deceased Frederick II of Prussia, first suggesting it in print in his own Astronomisches Jahrbuch of that year as Fredrichs Sternen Denkmal (“Frederick’s Star Memorial”):

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Notes

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    “Between Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Andromeda and the Swan” (Bode, 1787); “In the northern region of the heavens … near … Cepheus, Cassiopeia, Andromeda. Not far away are Pegasus and the Swan.” (Bode, 1792); “A little to the north of Andromeda’s hand” (Green, 1824); “Squeezed between the outstretched right arm of Andromeda and the Hevelius invention of Lacerta, the Lizard” (Ridpath, 1989); “Formed… out of the present stars of Lacerta and a few from Andromeda” (Bakich, 1995).

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    The original German text is reproduced at the end of this chapter.

  3. 3.

    The Rev. Charles Peter Layard (1749–1803), Dean of Bristol, was Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society from 1784 to his death.

  4. 4.

    Thomas Bugge (1740–1815) was the Danish Astronomer Royal and a Member of the International Commission on the Metric System (1798–1799).

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    Pierre Méchain (1744–1804) was a French astronomer and surveyor who, along with Charles Messier, made major contributions to telescopic observations of comets and “deep sky objects” including nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies.

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    Leonhard Euler (1701–1783), a Swiss mathematician and physicist.

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    The original French text is reproduced at the end of this chapter.

  8. 8.

    Robur Carolinum (Chap. 22) and Cor Caroli.

  9. 9.

    Argo Navis (Chap. 5).

  10. 10.

    Canes Venatici.

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    Scutum.

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    Aquila.

  13. 13.

    Sceptrum Brandenburgicum (Chap. 24).

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    Chap. 25

  15. 15.

    The first edition of Bode’s Vorstellung der Gestirne.

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    Lacerta.

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    The German poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725–1798).

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    “Dieses Sternendenkmal setzte ich im Jahre 1787, dem Andenken unsers unsterblichen Königs Friedrichs II zwischen dem Pegasus, Schwan, Cepheus, Cassiopeja und Andromeda. Einige der vornehmsten Sterne desselben gehörten sonst an der Kette und nordlichen Hand der Andromeda.”

  19. 19.

    Quoted by Louis Crompton in Homosexuality and Civilization, Harvard University Press (2009), p. 508.

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    Quoted by Hannsjoachim Wolfgang Koch in A History of Prussia, Dorset Press, New York (1978), p. 160.

  21. 21.

    For example, Instruction to his Generals (1797).

  22. 22.

    See, e.g., Lucia Impelluso (2004), Nature and its symbols. Getty Publications.

  23. 23.

    Book VIII, lines 107–123, trans. John Dryden (1697).

  24. 24.

    Genesis 8:6–11 (New International Version).

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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Honores Frederici. In: The Lost Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_12

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