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This book is the result of an effort to identify all of the constellations in published Western sources introduced after Ptolemy that achieved at least some currency in the area of celestial cartography, but were left out of the set of 88 constellations considered “official” by the world professional astronomy community. Along the way, we have gained some insight into the mind of pre-twentieth century astronomy in Europe and America, and the transition of astronomy to a fully scientific discipline in the modern sense. Other than as a convenience, the constellations serve no practical purpose for modern astronomers; rather, the exploration of historical astronomy tells us more about the human condition than how our cosmos is constructed.
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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Lost and Found. In: The Lost Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_30
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