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See also:BOOTES (Gr. 006M ?S, a ploughman, from /3oui, an ox) , a See also:constellation of the See also:northern hemisphere, mentioned by See also:Eudoxus (4th See also:century B.C.) and See also:Aratus (3rd century B.C.), and perhaps alluded to in the See also:book of See also:Job (see See also:ARCTURUS), and by See also:Homer and See also:Hesiod . The See also:ancient Greeks symbolized it as a See also:man walking, with his right See also:hand grasping a See also:club, and his See also:left extending up-wards and holding the leash of two See also:dogs, which are apparently See also:barking at the See also:Great See also:Bear . See also:Ptolemy catalogues twenty-three stars, Tycho See also:Brahe twenty-eight, See also:Hevelius fifty-two . In addition to Arcturus, the brightest in the See also:group, the most interesting stars of this constellation are: e Bootis, a beautiful See also:double See also:star composed of a yellow star of magnitude 3, and a See also:blue star of magnitude 6+; Bootis, a double star composed of a yellow star, magnitude 4zf and a See also:purple star, magnitude 6+; and W . Bootis, an irregularly variable star . This constellation has been known by many other names—Arcas, Arctophylax, Arcturus See also:minor, Bubuleus, Bubulus, Canis latrans, Clamator, Icarus, See also:Lycaon, Philometus, Plaustri custos, Plorans, Thegnis, Vociferator; the See also:Arabs termed it Aramech or Archamech; See also:Hesychius named it See also:Orion; Jules See also:Schiller, St See also:Sylvester; Schickard, See also:Nimrod; and Weigelius, the Three See also:Swedish Crowns . |
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