e been placed in
front of the character as the accents all appear above the
character.
Accent Symbol
acute /
macron =
breve )
diaresis :
circumflex ^
Greek characters markup scheme:
Greek characters indicate specific stars within a given constellation.
The Greek character has been transcribed and surrounded with square
brackets. Where the transcription resulted in an accented character
this character was rendered according to the character markup scheme
(above) and both sets of square brackets were retained. Example [[^e]].
Other symbols markup scheme:
Symbols that represent the various signs of the zodiac were rendered
according to the following example [Symbol: Gemini]
The degree symbol is represented by [deg]
Acute accent as a single character represented by '.
The ae ligature has been expanded to ae.
Superscripted characters are preceded by a ^
Corrections made:
Page 12 Au iga corrected to Auriga.
Page 118 preceptible corrected to perceptible.
Page 148 Oeti corrected to Ceti.
Page 163 cometimes corrected to sometimes.
Inconsistencies retained:
Alphecca and Alphacca.
Gloria Frederika and Gloria Frederica.
Bull of Poniatowskio and Bull of Poniatowski.
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