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This book compiles an array of interesting constellations that fell by the wayside before the
IAU established the modern canon of constellations. That decision left out lesser known ones
whose history is nevertheless interesting  but at last author John Barentine is giving them
their due. This book is a companion to The Lost Constellations  highlighting the more obscure
configurations. The 16 constellations found in this volume fall into one or more of three broad
categories: asterims  such as the Big Dipper in Ursa Major  single-sourced constellations
introduced on surviving charts by a cartographer perhaps currying the favor of sponsors  and
re-brands  new figures meant to displace existing constellations  often for an ideological
reason. All of them reveal something unique about the development of humanity's map of the sky.

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