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[[File:Sculptor IAU.svg|alt=star chart|thumb|Sculptor star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).]] | [[File:Sculptor IAU.svg|alt=star chart|thumb|Sculptor star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).]] | ||
One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations|88 IAU constellations]]. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s. | One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations|88 IAU constellations]]. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s. | ||
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==Etymology and History== | ==Etymology and History== | ||
[[File:Lacaille text newConst1756 scl.JPG|alt=screenshot of text|thumb|Lacaille on "Sculptor" (1752)]] | [[File:Lacaille text newConst1756 scl.JPG|alt=screenshot of text|thumb|Lacaille on "Sculptor" (1752)]] | ||
===Origin of Constellation=== | |||
<ref>Hoffmann, Susanne M. Wie der Löwe an den Himmel kam. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2021</ref>In his description from 1756, Nicolas Louis de Lacaille writes that the sculptor's workshop consists of a stool supporting a model and a block of marble on which a wooden hammer and a chisel have been placed. | |||
The long name ‘Sculptor's Workshop’ was shortened in the course of the IAU's definition of the constellations, and the block of marble is no longer drawn in modern times. Bode had already omitted the marble block in his Uranographia (1801) and replaced it with a new constellation, ‘electric machine’. However, this did not catch on: the air pump already existed as a symbol for physics, and Lacaille's constellations are already so small that it is not worth splitting them up any further. | |||
In addition to painting, technical drawing, ocean navigation, experimental physics and chemistry, the French mathematician and astronomer has thus immortalised another profession among the stars. | |||
===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation=== | ===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation=== | ||
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File:Lacaille-scl.jpg|Scl in Lacaille (1756) | |||
File:Scl Bode1782.jpg|Scl in Bode (1782,1805) | |||
File:Scl Fortin1795.jpg|Sculptor in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795). | |||
File:Scl Goldbach1799.jpg|Scl in Goldbach (1799) | |||
</gallery> | |||
==Mythology== | ==Mythology== | ||
Latest revision as of 12:46, 27 February 2026
Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann
One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s.
Etymology and History
Origin of Constellation
[1]In his description from 1756, Nicolas Louis de Lacaille writes that the sculptor's workshop consists of a stool supporting a model and a block of marble on which a wooden hammer and a chisel have been placed.
The long name ‘Sculptor's Workshop’ was shortened in the course of the IAU's definition of the constellations, and the block of marble is no longer drawn in modern times. Bode had already omitted the marble block in his Uranographia (1801) and replaced it with a new constellation, ‘electric machine’. However, this did not catch on: the air pump already existed as a symbol for physics, and Lacaille's constellations are already so small that it is not worth splitting them up any further.
In addition to painting, technical drawing, ocean navigation, experimental physics and chemistry, the French mathematician and astronomer has thus immortalised another profession among the stars.
Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation
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Scl in Lacaille (1756) -
Scl in Bode (1782,1805) -
Sculptor in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795). -
Scl in Goldbach (1799)
Mythology
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References
- ↑ Hoffmann, Susanne M. Wie der Löwe an den Himmel kam. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 2021
