emamajek on 23-Jul-2015 04:50:12 GMT about * eta Gem
HR 2216 (eta Gem) is also known by the proper name "Propus" (and less commonly "Tejat Prior"):
(1) Jacob Bartsch (1624) "Usus Astronomicus Planisphaerii Stellati" ["Propus Praepes"].
(2) J. E. Bode (1801) "Uranographia" ["Propus"].
(3) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813" ["Tejat Prior"].
(4) Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1840) "The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy; Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas" (5th Edition, with an introduction by Thomas Dick. New York, F.J. Huntington and Co.). ["Propus"]
(5) William Dwight Whitney (1889) "Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia" (The Century Company, New York) ["Propus"].
(6) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Propus"].
(7) William Tyler Olcott (1911) "Star Lore of All Ages" (G.P. Putnum's Sons, NY and London; republished as "Star Lore: Myths, Legends, and Facts", Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY, USA 2004) ["Propus"].
(8) Robert Burnham, Jr. (1978) "Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System" (Dover Publications) ["Propus"].
(9) Ian Ridpath (1988) "Star Tales" (Universe Books, New York) ["Propus"].
(10) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA) ["Propus; Praepes; Tejat Prior"].
(11) Ian Ridpath (2003) "Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook" (20th edition; Dutton) ["Propus"].
(12) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA) ["Propus"].
The name apparently comes from Ptolemy's original Greek description of the star in the Almagest in the context of Gemini; meaning "front foot". However, both the Arabic-Latin version of the Almagest (1515, via Gerard de Cremona 12th century), and the Greek-Latin version of the Almagest (e.g. 1528 Trebizond version) have only the generic terms "pedis" and "pede" in the descriptions of the star's position, respectively.
Some references specifically refer to eta Gem as "Tejat Prior" and label mu Gem as "Tejat Posterior" (however that star is commonly known also just as "Tejat").
Following Ptolemy's Almagest, Bode (1801), Allen (1899), Kunitzsch & Smart (2006), among others, it may be best to simply adopt the name "Propus".
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