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Aranea
Aranea was an obsolete constellation proposed by the English naturalist John Hill in his 1754 astronomical work Urania. Hill drew it as a long-legged spider and placed it among a group of new animal figures that he added to historical sky charts. Like Hirudo, the Leech, and Limax, Aranea was not adopted into the standardized system later recognized by the International Astronomical Union. [Former...
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Rangifer
Rangifer, also called Tarandus, was an obsolete northern constellation representing a reindeer. French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier introduced it in 1736, placing it between Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis in the northern sky; its creation commemorated the Lapland expedition associated with Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis and geodetic measurements of Earth's shape. The constellation is not...
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