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Marmor Sculptile is a now obsolete constellation designed in 1810 by William Croswell. |
In 1810, Boston cartographer William Croswell created a large star map called Mercator Map of the Starry Heavens.
![]() The map showed all the classical constellations and the new southern hemisphere constellations created by Dutch navigators Keyser and de Houtman. ![]() In addition, Croswell tried to put his own designs in the stars with Sciurus Volans in the northern and Marmor Sculptile in the southern hemisphere. ![]() Marmor Sculptile is a bust of explorer Christopher Columbus. For its creation, Croswell used the stars used 54 years earlyer by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to construct the constellation Reticulum ![]() Croswell's map of 1810 was the only map to ever show his two creations. ![]() Source: John C. Barentine: Uncharted Constellations |
![]() Mercator Map of the Starry Heavens Sources: Library of Congress, Wikimedia |
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