Celestial Menagerie Series

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Tucana

The identification of Tucana was collaboration between Dutch Navigators, de Houtman and Keyser, who charted the southern skies on a voyage to the East Indies, and Johanne Bayer, an astronomer who cataloged and published the newly discovered groupings of star patterns in his 1603 sky atlas entitled Uranometria. The shape of this constellation looks like the large bill of the brightly colored South American bird. Astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler who formulated the three laws of planetary motion called it Anser Americanus, the American Goose.

Dimensions: 14 X 11 1/2 (inches)

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