“The cleare and bright star, called the Star Royal, appearing in the breast of the signe Leo, Tubero mine author saith.” Thus, as Sharru, the King, it marked the 15th ecliptic constellation of Babylonia in India it was Magha, the Mighty in Sogdiana (a Persian people), Magh, the Great, rendered “the star called by Tubero (Lucius Tubero, friend of Cicero.) the Royal One in the Lion’s breast” Holland’s translation reading: This was from the belief that it ruled the affairs of the heavens,- a belief current, till three centuries ago, from at least 3000 years before our era. Regulus was so called by Polish astronomer Copernicus (1473-1543), as a diminutive of the earlier Rex, equivalent to the (Greek) Basiliskos (translated “Little King”) of the second-century Greek astronomer Ptolemy. [A scanned copy can be viewed on this webpageĪlpha (α) Leo, Regulus, is a triple star, 1.7, 8.5, and 13, flushed white and ultramarine in the Lion. From p.255 of Star Names, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889.
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