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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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Hirudo
Hirudo was an obsolete constellation proposed by the English naturalist John Hill in Urania, published in 1754. It represented a leech, reflecting Hill's practice of adding small animal figures to the sky charts of his period. Like Aranea, the Long-Legged Spider, Hirudo did not enter the constellation system used by modern astronomers and is not among the 88 constellations recognized by the Intern...
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