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Originally Posted by Wavytone

Another reference to an atlas from 1594 showing Crux as a separate constellation (top of p. 216)
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/f...00215.000.html

and the Hondius globe of 1600 is mentioned on page 219

Thanks Wavytone.
More 'classically' definitive was E.B. Knobel's "On Frederick de Houtman's catalogue of southern stars, and the origin of the southern constellations"
MNRAS., 77, 414-432 ( See http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1917MNRAS..77..414K )

The central source of some modern data and historically discussion, here.

Crux's origin, however, probably even predates de Houtman's works !!

Make a better future AS&T article methinks than the current one first described here !!

(What do you reckon Greg Bryant? Happy to write it for the magazine if you want me too.)