Introduced by the Frenchman Pierre-Charles
Le Monnier on a star chart published in 1743 in his book La Théorie des Comètes. He called it le Renne, which was shown as
“Reene” on the chart. Fittingly, the celestial
reindeer was placed near the north pole of the sky. Le Monnier
invented the constellation after his trip to Lapland to measure
the length of a degree of latitude in the far north. It has
also been known by the name Tarandus.
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Rangifer seen in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
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