Editing Camelopardalis (section)

==History==

[[Image:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Camelopardalis, Tarandus and Custos Messium.jpg|thumb|left|300px|Camelopardalis as depicted in ''[[Urania's Mirror]]'', a set of constellation cards published in London c.1823. Above it are shown the now-abandoned constellations of [[Tarandus (constellation)|Tarandus]] and [[Custos Messium]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/?item_id=218603 |title=The constellations Camelopardalis, Tarandus and Custos Messium |publisher=National Museums Scotland |access-date=25 November 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125204423/https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/?item_id=218603 |url-status=live }}</ref>]]

Camelopardalis is not one of [[Ptolemy]]'s 48 constellations in the ''[[Almagest]]''.<ref name="ley196312">{{Cite magazine
 |last=Ley
 |first=Willy
 |date=December 1963
 |title=The Names of the Constellations
 |department=For Your Information
 |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v22n02_1963-12#page/n46/mode/1up
 |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction
 |pages=90–99
 }}</ref> It was created by Petrus Plancius in 1613.{{sfn|Ridpath|2001|pp=92–93}} It first appeared in a globe designed by him and produced by [[Pieter van den Keere]]. One year later, [[Jakob Bartsch]] featured it in his atlas. [[Johannes Hevelius]] depicted this constellation in his works which were so influential that it was referred to as Camelopardali Hevelii or abbreviated as Camelopard. Hevel.

Part of the constellation was hived off to form the constellation Sciurus Volans, the Flying Squirrel, by William Croswell in 1810. However this was not taken up by later cartographers.<ref>{{cite book | first=Nick | last=Kanas | date=2007 | title=Star maps: history, artistry, and cartography | page=131 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bae3LP4tfP4C&pg=PA131 | publisher=Springer | location=New York City | isbn=978-0-387-71668-8 | access-date=14 September 2020 | archive-date=10 November 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110011257/https://books.google.com/books?id=bae3LP4tfP4C&pg=PA131#v=onepage&q&f=false | url-status=live }}</ref>
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