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NOT very many years ago, when the literature of China and India was as a sealed book, and the hieroglyphics of Egypt and the wedges of Babylonia were still unread, we had to depend for the earliest traces of astronomical observation upon the literatures of Greece and Syria, and according to these sources the asterisms first specialised and named were as follows:—
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LOCKYER, J. The Early Asterisms: I. Nature 48, 438–440 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048438e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/048438e0