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2 unusual facts about Polophylax


Polophylax

It was introduced by Petrus Plancius in the small celestial planispheres on his large wall map of 1592.

It was superseded by the twelve constellations which Petrus Plancius formed in late 1597 or early 1598 from the southern star observations of Pieter Dircksz Keyser and Frederik de Houtman.


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