Sculptor

star chart

Sculptor star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s.

Etymology and History

Lacaille on "Sculptor" (1752)

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

• 
  Scl in Lacaille (1756)
• 
  Scl in Bode (1782,1805)
• 
  Sculptor in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).
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  Scl in Goldbach (1799)

References

• References (general)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)