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===Origin of Constellation===
===Origin of Constellation===
[[File:Leo+vir umzeichng4plani black.png|thumb|Leo and Virgo above the MUŠ-Dragon, two claytablet drawings from the Seleucid era (roughly 2nd century BCE), CC BY SMH based upon the drawings by E. Weidner (1967) and Thureau-Dangin (1922).]]


==== Babylonian ====
==== Babylonian ====

Revision as of 20:56, 25 April 2025

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

Leo and Virgo above the MUŠ-Dragon, two claytablet drawings from the Seleucid era (roughly 2nd century BCE), CC BY SMH based upon the drawings by E. Weidner (1967) and Thureau-Dangin (1922).

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