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There is no way to know who first surveyed the sky: it may not even have been a human. From experiments in planetaria we know that migrating birds recognize the rotation of the sky, and it has been reported that dung beetles can navigate by the light of the Milky Way.
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Wynn-Williams, G. (2016). Introduction. In: Surveying the Skies. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28510-8_1
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