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[[File:Hya kugel smh2024.jpg|thumb|Constellation Hydra with Crater and Corvus on the Kugel Globe (1st century BCE), detail from drawing by SMH (Hoffmann 2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169.]] |
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===== Aratos ===== |
===== Aratos ===== |
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[448?] Midway on its coiling form is set the Crater, and at the tip the figure of a Raven [Corvus] that seems to peck at the coil. |
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[520?] the dim-lit Crater and the Crow |
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(Kidd 1997) |
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===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation=== |
===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation=== |
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File:Hya kugel smh2024.jpg|Hydra with Crater and Corvus on the Kugel Globe (-1st c., drawing by SMH) |
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File:Hydra Corvus et Crater - Mercator.jpeg|Hydra with Corvus and Crater on the Mercator Globe (1551) |
File:Hydra Corvus et Crater - Mercator.jpeg|Hydra with Corvus and Crater on the Mercator Globe (1551) |
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File:Hydra Uranometria.jpg|Hydra in the Uranometria (1603), Corvus not drawn but in map |
File:Hydra Uranometria.jpg|Hydra in the Uranometria (1603), Corvus not drawn but in map |
Latest revision as of 05:27, 2 May 2025
One of the 88 IAU constellations.
Etymology and History
The Greek constellation ...
Origin of Constellation
Babylonian
Greco-Roman
Aratos
[448?] Midway on its coiling form is set the Crater, and at the tip the figure of a Raven [Corvus] that seems to peck at the coil.
[520?] the dim-lit Crater and the Crow
(Kidd 1997)
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Geminos
Almagest Κόραξ.
id | Greek
(Heiberg 1898) |
English
(Toomer 1984) |
ident. |
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Κόρακος ἀστερισμός | |||
1 | ὁ ἐν τῷ ῥάμφει καὶ κοιφὸς τοῦ Ὕδρου. | The star in the beak, which is [applied in] common to Hydra | alf Crv |
2 | ὁ ἐν τῷ τραχήλῳ πρὸς τῇ κεφαλῇἡ | The star in the neck, by the head | eps Crv |
3 | ὁ ἐν τῷ στήθει. | The star in the breast | zet Crv |
4 | ὁ ἐν τῇ προηγουμένῃ καὶ δεξιᾷ πτέρυγι. | The star in the advance, right wing | gam Crv |
5 | τῶν ἐν τῇ ἐπομένῃ πτέρογι β’ ὁ ἠγούμενος; | The more advanced of the 2 stars in the rear wing | del Crv |
6 | ὁ ἐπόμενος αὐτῶ | The rearmost of them | ety Crv |
7 | ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ ποδὸς κοιφὸς τοῦ Ὕδρου | The star on the end of the leg, which is [applied in] common to Hydra | bet Crv |
all | ὁ ἀστέρες ξ, ὧν γ’ μεγέθους ἔ, δ’ ἂ, ε’ ἄ |