Editing Leo Minor (section)

==History==
The classical astronomers [[Aratus]] and [[Ptolemy]] had noted the region of what is now Leo Minor to be undefined and not containing any distinctive patterns; Ptolemy classified the stars in this area as ''amorphōtoi'' (not belonging to a constellation outline) within the constellation Leo.{{sfn|Allen|1963|p=263}}

[[Johannes Hevelius]] first depicted Leo Minor in 1687 when he outlined ten new constellations in his star atlas ''Firmamentum Sobiescianum'',{{sfn|Ridpath, ''Star Tales'' Filling the remaining gaps}} and included 18 of its objects in the accompanying ''Catalogus Stellarum Fixarum''.{{sfn|Hevelius|1687|pp=214–15}} Hevelius decided upon Leo Minor or Leo Junior as a depiction that would align with its beastly neighbours the Lion and the Great Bear.{{sfn|Wagman|2003|pp=189–90}} In 1845, English astronomer [[Francis Baily]] revised the catalogue of Hevelius's new constellations, and assigned a Greek letter known as [[Bayer designation]] to stars brighter than [[apparent magnitude]] 4.5.{{sfn|Wagman|2003|p=8}} [[Richard A. Proctor]] gave the constellation the name ''Leaena'' "the Lioness" in 1870,{{sfn|Allen|1963|p=263}} explaining that he sought to shorten the constellation names to make them more manageable on celestial charts.{{sfn|Proctor|1870|pp=16–17}}

German astronomer [[Christian Ludwig Ideler]] posited that the stars of Leo Minor had been termed ''Al Thibā' wa-Aulāduhā'' "Gazelle with her Young" on a 13th-century Arabic celestial globe, recovered by Cardinal [[Stefano Borgia]] and housed in the prelate's museum at [[Velletri]].{{sfn|Allen|1963|p=42}}<ref>See also Mark R. Chartrand III (1983) Skyguide: A Field Guide for Amateur Astronomers, p. 158 ({{ISBN|0-307-13667-1}}).</ref>  Arabist [[Friedrich Wilhelm Lach]] describes a different view, noting that they had been seen as ''Al Haud'' "the Pond", which the Gazelle jumps into.{{sfn|Allen|1963|p=263}} In [[Chinese astronomy]], the stars Beta, 30, 37 and 46 Leonis Minoris made up ''Neiping'', a "Court of Judge or Mediator", or ''Shi'' "Court Eunuch"{{sfn|Ridpath, ''Star Tales'' Leo Minor}} or were combined with stars of the neighbouring Leo to make up a large celestial dragon or State Chariot.{{sfn|Allen|1963|p=263}}<ref>See also Chartrand, at p. 158.</ref>  A line of four stars was known as ''Shaowei''; it represented four Imperial advisors and may have been located in Leo Minor, Leo or adjacent regions.{{sfn|Ridpath, ''Star Tales'' Leo Minor}}