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A star, a daystar, a firedrake rose at his birth. It shone by day in the heavens alone, brighter than Venus in the night, and by night it shone over delta in Cassiopeia, the recumbent constellation which is the signature of (’s) initial among the stars. His eyes watched it, lowlying on the horizon, eastward of the bear, as he walked by the slumberous summer fields at midnight … (Joyce 210).
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Levy, D.H. (2016). The Stella Novae of 1572 and 1604. In: The Starlight Night. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 419. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19878-1_1
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