Libra

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations.

Etymology and History

The Greek constellation ...

Origin of Constellation

Almagest

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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Libra (two versions) in as-Sufi, Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah, Mosul 1170, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford,

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  Libra in Bayer (1603).

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  Libra in Flamsteed (1776)

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  Libra in Bode (1782,1805)

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  Libra in Jamieson (1822)

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  Libra zodiac sign, Jantar Mantar, Jaipur, India

References

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• References (Babylonian)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)