The Octant (Octans) _Id._ The Compass and Square _Id._ The Telescope (Telescopium) _Id._ The Microscope (Microscopium) _Id._ The Table Mountain (Mensa) _Id._ The Reindeer _Lemonnier_, 1774. The Solitaire (Indian Bird) _Id._ Le Messier _Lalande_, 1776. The Bull of Poniatowski _Poczobut_, 1877. The Honors of Frederick _Bode_, 1786. The Harp of the Georges _Hell_, 1789. The Telescope of Herschel _Bode_, 1787. The Electrical Machine _Id_, 1790. The Printer’s Workshop _Id._ The Mural Quadrant _Lalande_, 1795. The Air Balloon _Id._, 1798. The Cat _Id._, 1799. Such are the constellations, ancient and modern, venerable or recent, into which the celestial sphere has been divided. The ancient names are respectable and respected, on account of their relations, known or unknown, with the origins of history and religion; the new ones must be ephemeral. It is useful to know them, because several stars celebrated under different titles have for their principal designation their position in these asterisms; but what we should wish would be to see them disappear.[14] Many other substitutions have, however, been attempted. I have in my library a splendid folio of the year 1661, containing twenty-nine engraved plates, illuminated in gold and silver, among which are two which represent the sky delivered from the pagans and peopled with Christians. Instead of divinities more or less virtuous, in place of animals of forms more or less fantastic, we behold the elect—apostles, saints, popes, martyrs, sacred persons of the Old and New Testament—seated in the celestial vault, clothed in rich costumes of all colors, embroidered with gold, and carefully installed in the place of all the pagan heroes who for so many ages reigned in the sky. The author of this metamorphosis was named Jules Schiller, and it was in the year 1627 that he introduced it, coupling his name with that of John Bayer. He began his dissertation by showing how the pagan constellations are opposed to Christian opinion and even to common-sense. He quoted the Fathers of the Church who expressly disapprove of them: Isodorus, who treats them as diabolical; Lactantius, who condemns the corruption of the human race; Augustine, who sends their heroes to hell, etc.