Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. A decade later, it was picked up by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt to whom it is sometimes attributed. It was never popular and is...
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is a contraction of the Bayer designation, coined by astronomer Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1794–1838). /ˈɡækrʌks/ Cancer HD 73534 Gakyid IAU new 2019 Bhutan...
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2019-06-25, retrieved 2012-02-04 p. 18, The Geography of the Heavens, Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Hiram Mattison, and Henry Whitall, New York: Sheldon & Company...
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Centaurus. The historical name Gacrux was coined by astronomer Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1794-1838). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized...
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1856 when the star atlas Geography of the Heavens, composed by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, was published. The meaning and linguistic origin of the name remained...
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appeared on the star atlas Geography of the Heavens, composed by Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, but its ultimate origin was unknown. Since 1943, this star has...
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also suggest possible sources of Poe's knowledge of both comets: Elijah Hinsdale Burritt's The Geography of the Heavens and John Herschel's 1835 A Treatise...
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Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette. M. Salmon. 1852. p. 344. Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1873). The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy:...
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heavens: and class-book of astronomy: accompanied by a ..." By Elijah Hinsdale Burritt, Henry Whitall, Page 324. Internet Archive 2010 The Online Museum...
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Johannem Jansonium à Waasberge, & viduam Elizei Weyerstraet. p. 76. Burritt, Elijah Hinsdale (1850). Atlas: Designed to illustrate the geography of the heavens...
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