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DELPHINUS (" THE DOLPHIN ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DELPHINUS (" THE DOLPHIN ")

DELPHINUS (" THE
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DOLPHIN
DOLPHIN ") , in

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ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

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CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; co'n, with, and Stella, a star)

constellation of the

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NORTHERN

northern hemisphere, mentioned by

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EUDOXUS

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CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C.) and

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ARATUS

Aratus (3rd century B.C.); and catalogued by

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PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy (10 stars), Tycho

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Brahe (to stars), and

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HEVELIUS [HEVEL or H6WELCKE], JOHANN (1611—1687)

Hevelius (14 stars). y Delphini is a

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STAR

star: a yellowish of magnitude 4, and a bluish of magnitude 5 .

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