The German astronomer Johann Bode
introduced this constellation on his Uranographia star atlas
of 1801 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of
Gutenberg’s invention of printing with movable type. It
lay in what is now the northern part of Puppis, the stern of
the ship Argo.
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Officina Typographica, invented by Johann Bode and shown on his Uranographia atlas of 1801.
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