Hydra and Surrounding Constellations, 1825

Hydra and Surrounding Constellations, 1825

Astronomical chart showing an owl, raven, ornate bowl, sextant, snake, cat, wolf, centaur, air pump, and a ship forming the constellations. Hydra was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Corvus is a small constellation in the southern sky and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Noctua, Latin for little owl, was a seldom mentioned constellation that was once placed between the end of the tail of Hydra. It is now obsolete. Crater constellation is identified with the cup of the god Apollo. Sextans is a minor equatorial constellation which was introduced in 1687 by Johannes Hevelius. Felis was a constellation created by French astronomer Jérome Lalande in 1799. It is now obsolete. Antlia is a constellation in the southern sky. It was created in 1756 by Abbé de Lacaille and originally named Antlia pneumatica to commemorate the air pump invented by Denis Papin. Urania's Mirror is a boxed set of 32 constellation cards first published by Samuel Leigh of the Strand, London, in or shortly before 1825.

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