The three constellations, Ophiuchus, Scorpius and Anguis. A seventeenth century hand-colour engraving, based on the 9th century Aratus image in Leiden. Aratus was born in about 315 BC, in Soli, and wrote his 'Phaenomena' for the ruler of Macedonia, Antigonus

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Photo credit: © Charles Walker Collection / Alamy / Afripics
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