A constellation introduced by Johann Bode
in 1787 on a special chart published in the Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des
Sciences et Belles Lettres of Berlin
and the Astronomisches Jahrbuch. The constellation commemorates King Frederick
the Great of Prussia, who had died the preceding year. Bode
originally called it by the German name of Friedrichs Ehre,
which can be translated as either “Glory” or
“Honour”, the former being the more archaic usage,
but he Latinized the name on his Uranographia of 1801. Names for it on other atlases
include Gloria Frederici and Frederici Honores. The
constellation was squeezed between the outstretched right arm
of Andromeda and the Hevelius invention of Lacerta, the Lizard.
In this same area the Frenchman Augustin Royer had in 1679
placed his own invention, Sceptrum, representing the French
sceptre and hand of justice, commemorating Louis XIV. Neither
constellation survived.
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Honores Friderici, next to Lacerta the lizard, as shown in the Uranographia of Johann Bode. It consists of a ceremonial sword entwined with a strand of laurel, a quill pen, and a crown to symbolize him as a hero, sage, and peacemaker.
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