Abstract
Pierre-Charles Le Monnier (1715–1799) introduced this constellation in a 1776 issue of Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, intending it to represent “a bird of the Indies and the Philippines” that he believed already extinct by his time. Le Monnier included a table of stars (p. 561) and a map depicting the bird, reproduced here as Fig. 29.1.
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The English cartographer and engraver John Senex (1678–1740).
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The French engraver Guillaume d’Heulland (1700–1770).
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Alexandre Guy Pingr (1711–1796) was a French astronomer and canon regular best known for publishing an extensive history of comet observations.
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Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806) was a French zoologist best known for his comprehensive Ornithologie (1760–1763).
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“Cet oiseau de l’Inde a été placé par Monnier en 1776 au firmament, entre le bassin méridional de la balance, & la queue de l’hydre, & formé d’étoiles qui autrefois faisoient partie de ces constellations.” (p. 13)
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Carl Linnaeus introduced the binomial Turdus solitarius in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae (1758).
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D. Zuccon and P.G. Ericson, “The Monticola rock-thrushes: phylogeny and biogeography revisited”. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(3), 901–910 (2010).
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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Turdus Solitarius/Noctua. In: The Lost Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_29
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