Polophylax
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Polophylax (Greek: guardian of the pole) was a southern constellation that lay where Tucana and Grus now are.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Polophylax is referenced by 125 other articles, and connects out to former constellation, Musca Borealis and Canes Venatici.
It is catalogued under the topic Former constellations.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- former constellation
- Creator
- Petrus Plancius
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- inception
- 1592-00-00
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Polophylax (Greek: guardian of the pole) was a southern constellation that lay where Tucana and Grus now are.
During the Renaissance several new constellations were created for recorded stars that were outside the boundaries of the existing Ptolemaic constellations. Polophylax was introduced (along with the constellation Columba) by Petrus Plancius in the small celestial planispheres on his large wall map of 1592. It is also shown on his smaller world map of 1594 and on world maps copied from Plancius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Polophylax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.