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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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Manis
Manis was a proposed constellation introduced by the English naturalist and writer John Hill in his 1754 star catalogue 'Urania.' It depicted a pangolin — the scaly anteater whose modern scientific genus name is Manis — placed among the stars between Andromeda, Lacerta, and Cygnus. Hill created a number of unconventional animal constellations, but Manis was never adopted by the astronomical commun...
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