Argo Navis

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Argo Navis

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…part of the much larger Argo Navis, which represented the ship Argo, in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, in his Coelum Australe Stelliferum (“Star Catalog of the Southern Sky,” 1763), broke up Argo Navis into the smaller…
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…part of the much larger Argo Navis, which represented the ship Argo, in which Jason and the Argonauts sailed to retrieve the Golden Fleece. The French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, in his Coelum Australe Stelliferum (“Star Catalog of the Southern Sky,” 1763), broke up Argo Navis into the smaller…
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