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The 28 constellations in Volume 1 of this book are grouped together on the basis of a particular defining characteristic: each was a more or less original invention that is sourced in more than one published text or chart.
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Genesis 37:9 (NIV). The “eleven stars” refer to the ancient houses of the zodiac.
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E.g., Aratus, Phaenomena 146; Hyginus, Astronomica 2.24.
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The War was waged between the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt and the Seleucid Empire, two successor states of Alexander the Great’s empire, during the third and second centuries bc.
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The modern city of Mersin, Turkey.
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In 1843 the English astronomer Sir John Herschel proposed replacing Lacaille’s invented constellation Pyxis with a fourth constituent of Argo Navis he called Malus (the Mast); Herschel’s figure appeared on a few mid-century maps but was discarded before 1900.
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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Asterisms, Single-Sourced Constellations, and “Rebrands”. In: Uncharted Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27619-9_2
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