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Indus is a constellation in the southern sky. Created in the late sixteenth century, it represents an Indian, a word that could refer at the time to any native of Asia or the Americas. | Indus is a constellation in the southern sky. Created in the late sixteenth century, it represents an Indian, a word that could refer at the time to any native of Asia or the Americas. | ||
The constellation was one of twelve created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyserand Frederick de Houtman[2] and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was inJohann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Plancius portrayed the figure as a nude male with arrows in both hands but no bow. | The constellation was one of twelve created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyserand Frederick de Houtman[2] and it first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was inJohann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Plancius portrayed the figure as a nude male with arrows in both hands but no bow. | ||