Abstract
Pomum Imperiale was introduced by Gottfried Kirch in Acta Eruditorum (1688; Fig. 13.1) to honor the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I; the constellation appeared in the same issue of Acta Eruditorum in which he published Sceptrum Brandenburgicum (see Volume 1), which later also fell by the wayside. Kirch described the location and motivation for his new invention in the accompanying text: During the time of the Herald globes, and the old constellations exchanged for new figures we recall: that the least of which we do not speak is the efforts of Kirch, that after our Swords of the Saxony Electorate, in the year 1684, declared by the Acts of that year, page 396, carried to heaven, and the Imperial staff, and the Brandenburg Scepter to rest among the stars of heaven, of the stars while still not for the star conveyed, it is ascribed.
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“Dum Heraldicorum globorum, & asterismorum veterum in nova schemata commutatorum meminimus: minime nobis tacenda est Kirchii nostri industria, qui post Enses Electorales Saxonicos, A. 1684, testantibus Actis illius anni pag. 396, cœlo illatos, & Malo Imperiali, & Sceptro Brandenburgico sedem inter astra coelestia, ex stellis nullo adhuc dum sideri transcriptis, assignavit. Primum gloriae cessit Invictissimi Imperatoris nostri Leopoldi, dedicarum eidem anno 1684 ab Autore, in memorial obsidionis Viennensis fortissime solutæ: teneturque ab Antinoo prehensum, sub Aquila & Delphino septem stellis coruscans, quarum nomenclatura dextre collecta, ipsum Leopoldi nomen non ineleganter exprimit.” (p. 452)
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Kirch’s invention Gladii Electorales Saxonici; see Chap. 6
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Kirch’s contribution to Acta Eruditorum for 1684.
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Sceptrum Brandenburgicum; see Volume 1.
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See Sceptrum Brandenburgicum, Volume 1.
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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Pomum Imperiale. In: Uncharted Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27619-9_13
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