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Historical Development of Star Constellations: From Hevelius to Burritt, Quizzes of Astronomy

University of Michigan (UM) - Ann Arbor Astronomy

The key figures and their contributions to the cataloging and mapping of star constellations throughout history, from hevelius in 1690 to burritt in 1849. Each term includes the name of the contributor, the year of their major work, and a brief definition of their contribution.

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Download Historical Development of Star Constellations: From Hevelius to Burritt and more Quizzes Astronomy in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Hevelius DEFINITION 1 1690 7 Constellations Firmamentum Sobiescanum ~1500 stars constellations reversed TERM 2 Bayer DEFINITION 2 1603 Uranmetria: Greek Letters By Brightness, Magnitudes, Greek letters+Latin genitive TERM 3 Flamsteed DEFINITION 3 1729 3000 stars Arabic numeral+latin genitive East to West Atlas Coelestis TERM 4 Bode DEFINITION 4 1801 Uranographia Never Invented only charted 17,000 stars >100 constellations Constellation boundaries Largest atlas ever TERM 5 Lacaille DEFINITION 5 1752 14 southern constellations after science and art Catholic Deacon/math prof Coelum Australe Stelliferum: 10,000 southern stars TERM 6 Ptolemy DEFINITION 6 ~1000 stars AD 130 Almagest (Syntaxis) Based on Hippachus TERM 7 Hipparchus DEFINITION 7 First western star catelog TERM 8 Al Sufi DEFINITION 8 AD 964 uses Ptolemy number system Book of fixed stars TERM 9 Plancius DEFINITION 9 1598 17 southern constellations from Dutch voyages yo Indonesia new maps of southern sky (pieter keyser, frederick houtman) TERM 10 Burritt DEFINITION 10 1849 The geography of the heavens and class book of astronomy

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