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Most authors render Bode’s contrived New Latin name too literally as “Printing Office.” A closer match to the original intended sense is obtained from the French translation “atelier typographique” (printing workshop), so I have here rendered it as the “Printer’s Workshop”. A shorter English version that retains the spirit of the original is “Printshop.”
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“Between the head of the Great Dog, the Unicorn, and the Cat” (Kendall, 1845); “Directly east of Canis Major, and south of Monoceros” (Bouvier, 1858); “[S]tars immediately east of Sirius” (Allen, 1899); “It lay in what is now the northern part of Puppis, the stern of the ship Argo, between Canis Major and the hind legs of Monoceros” (Ridpath, 1989); “Directly east of Sirius”Sirius” (Bakich, 1995).
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“Dieses Gestirn erscheint zuerst in diesen Charten, gerade links vom Sirius und dem Kopf des grossen Hundes, und macht sich an verschiedenen daselbst in und bey der Milchstrasse stehenden Sternen kenntlich. Ich habe erst ganz neuerlich in Vorschlag gebracht, um damit das Andenken einer äusserst wichtigen über 350 Jahr alten Erfindung eines Deutschen, am Sterngewölbe zu erhalten. Es besteht aus einem Theirl der Druckerpresse, dem Schriftkasten, Ballen &c.”
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J. Marzahn, Aramaic and Figural Stamp Impressions on Bricks of the Sixth Century bc from Babylon. Harrassowitz Verlag: Wiesbaden (2010), p. 11, 20, and 160.
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“Das typographische Prinzip. Versuch einer Begriffsklärung”. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, Vol. 72, pp. 58–63 (1997).
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It has been suggested that Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370\(\mbox{ \textendash }\) c. 1440) may have invented cast metal movable type in Holland as early as the 1420s, but the documentary evidence is much less well established than that favoring Gutenberg.
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Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, S.J. (1818–1878) was an Italian astronomer who served as Director of the Observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome from 1850 until his death.
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Barentine, J.C. (2016). Officina Typographica. In: The Lost Constellations. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22795-5_17
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