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vorcr of Eastern Europe from tin- 

 got a similar honour done him hy 



th.n invented constellation called 



nki's Shi.-l-i ileo f.-lt himself UH.I.T such 

 obligations to the ducal house of Tuscany tha 

 named the four moons of .luj-n- r. which ho discovered, 

 the Medieoan Stars, a name they long continued to 

 bear. The honour of a place in the heavens was 

 great It was also much sought after, so much so 



Ualileo was told "ho would do a thin- just and 

 .nd at the same time render himself 



and powerful f..r aver," if he "named the next 

 star which h<> shouM discover at name of tin- 



great Hti i nee, a* well as the moat brilliant of 



all th- \\-MI-I. 1." Henry of Navarre. Fortunately, in this 

 respect at least* ho had not tho chance, otherwise we 

 might have had the starry heavens peopled wit 



ly nonentities of earth. Royn 71), <lil n 



MM. ilar honour to Louis xiv., by forming a constella- 



called The Sceptre, for that monarch's glory; 

 Messier, after the astronomer of that name, was 

 another recently invented constellation on which 

 Boecovich made the lines 



Carte erat ille tuo digniu inene pola" 



But no one would have expected a man of science so 

 famous as Edmund Halley, to in\ i -nt a constellation in 

 honour of Churl.- n The Oak, in memory of his 

 escape at tester, or that Flamsteed would have 



placed so rotten a thing as the " Heart of CharK 

 among the stars. 1 



1 UUude, L J83, S84. 



