A constellation introduced by Johann Bode in 1787 to commemorate King Frederick
the Great of Prussia, who had died the preceding year. A description and chart
of it were published in the Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles Lettres of Berlin and Bode’s own Astronomisches Jahrbuch.
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 to Honores
Friderici 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 (1801). 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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