Pyx - Pyxis the Compass of Argo Navis
Origin and History
This constellation is also known as Malus. See Argo Navis. One of 17 constellations created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Called by Bode Pyxis Nautica.
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Bode (1801), Plate 18 | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), Plate 18: Argo Navis | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), plate 2: ArgoNavis | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), plate 2: Libra Planisphere Uranographia Tab II. Stellatum Hemisphaeri um Librae. Bode included two planisphere plates. They are not southern and northern hemispheres; each one has Polaris at the top and the south pole at the bottom. Each… |
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Bode (1801), plate 2: Pyxis From Bode, Tab 2 planisphere. |
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