1) Constellation 2) Constellation, Furnace 3) Latin girl name
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Fornax s is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for furnace. It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756. Fornax is one of the 88 modern constellations. ==History== De Lacaille originally called the constellation `Fornax Chemica` (the chemical furnace),{sfn|Ridpath|Tirion|2001|pp=148-149} representing a.....
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[Chinese astronomy] According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Fornax is located within the western quadrant of the sky, The White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ). The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 天爐座 (tiān lú zuò), meaning `the heaven furnace constellation`...
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[mythology] In ancient Roman religion, Fornax was the divine personification of the oven (fornax). Her festival, the Fornacalia, was celebrated on February 17 among the thirty curiae, the most ancient divisions of the city made by Romulus from the original three tribes of Rome. The Fornacalia was the second of two festivals involving the cu...
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(abbr. For, gen. Fornacis) The Chemical Furnace, a faint southern constellation created by Lacaille in 1751-52 from several dim stars previously in Eridanus and named by him in honor of the chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was guillotined in the French Revolution. Its only star br...
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English name: The Furnace. Genitive name: Fornacis. Visibility: Parts visible from the UK. See TABLE 20: THE CONSTELLATIONS.
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In Roman mythology, Fornax was the goddess of the mysteries of bread-baking and the embryo's development.
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n] - a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Cetus and Phoenix
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the Furnace, a small southern constellation south of Cetus and Eridanus.
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