Leo the Lion, from a seventeenth century hand-coloured engraving, itself based on the ninth century copy of Aratus in Leiden. Aratus was born in Soli about 315 BC, and wrote his book on the stars for Antigonus Gonatus, the ruler of Macedonia.

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