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=== Origin of Constellation === | === Origin of Constellation === | ||
Various types of historical air pumps<gallery> | |||
File:The air-pump of Otto von Guericke. Wellcome M0014008.jpg|The air-pump of Otto von Guericke (1654). (This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. Wellcome Trust, UK) | |||
File:Boyle's first air pump. Wellcome M0010676.jpg|Boyle's first air pump (1660s). (This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects: Wellcome Trust UK) | |||
File:1700 vacuum pump (29771207283).jpg|Vacuum Pump, ~1700 Dresden, Germany (Thomas Quine 2010). (This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects.) | |||
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=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation === | === Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation === | ||
Revision as of 20:21, 25 January 2025
One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s.
Etymology and History
Origin of Constellation
Various types of historical air pumps
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The air-pump of Otto von Guericke (1654). (This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. Wellcome Trust, UK) -
Boyle's first air pump (1660s). (This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects: Wellcome Trust UK) -
Vacuum Pump, ~1700 Dresden, Germany (Thomas Quine 2010). (This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects.)
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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation
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Antlia (Lacaille (1756). -
Antlia in Bode (1782) -
Antlia in Goldbach (1799) -
Antlia in Bode (1801), This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects.
