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This webpage reproduces a section of Star Names Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Hinckley Allen as reprinted in the Dover edition, 1963 The text is in the public domain. This page has been carefully proofread and I believe it to be free of errors. If you find a mistake though, please let me know!

 p297  Officina Typographica, the Printing Office,

was formed by Bode — at all events, first published by him — from stars immediately east of Sirius; but it is seldom found on the maps of our day, nor recognized by astronomers, although Father Secchi inserted it on his planisphere of 1878.

Italian lists have it as Tipografia, and the German as Buchdrucker Presse, or Buchdrucker Werkstadt.

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