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[[File:Kugel cnc+leo+hya+vir.JPG|thumb|Kugel Globe: Cancer, Leo, Hydra, Virgo (drawing by SMH 2024)]]


===Origin of Constellation===
===Origin of Constellation===

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star chart
Leo star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).

One of the 88 IAU constellations with Greco-Roman background. It has been developed from a Babylonian predecessor

Etymology and History

The Greek constellation ...


Kugel Globe: Cancer, Leo, Hydra, Virgo (drawing by SMH 2024)

Origin of Constellation

Babylonian

Greco-Roman

Aratos
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Geminos

Almagest

id Greek

(Heiberg 1898)

English

(Toomer 1984)

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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

Weblinks

References