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Triangulum Minus

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Described rightly by Ridpath (1989) as “one of the least imaginative constellations,” Triangulum Minus was introduced by Johannes Hevelius and published posthumously in Prodromus Astronomiae (1690). To form the new figure, he appropriated three faint stars later cataloged by Flamsteed as 6, 10, and 12 Trianguli; the remaining brighter stars traditionally associated with the existing constellation were labeled “Triangulum Majus” to distinguish the two (Fig. 28.1).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    “Three … stars between it [Triangulum] and the head of Aries” (Smyth, 1844b); “Lies between the head of Aries and the southern foot of Andromeda” (Kendall 1845, referring to both this and the ancient Triangulum); “A little to the south-east of Andromeda” (Bouvier, 1858); “Three small stars immediately to the south of the major constellation” (Allen, 1899); “Just south of the existing celestial triangle, Triangulum” (Ridpath, 1989).

  2. 2.

    Page 6: “Jenes ist bereits seiner Figur wegen im Alterthum eingeführt, und die Dichter fagen, Ceres habe den Jupiter gebeten, die dreyeckige Gestalt der fruchtbaren Insel Sicilien an den Himmel zu versetzen. Letzteres ist erst von Hevel hinzugefügt worden. Beyde stehen zwischen Almak am Fuss der Andromeda, und dem Kopf des Widders.”

  3. 3.

    “Nux” verse 82, trans. H.T. Riley in The Heroides or Epistles of the Heroines, the Amours, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, and Minor works of Ovid, London: H.G. Bohn (1852).

  4. 4.

    ‘One in each corner’.

  5. 5.

    Phainomena, lines 233–237.

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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Triangulum Minus. In: The Lost Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_28

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