Editing Apus (section)

==History==

[[File:BayerUran1661apuschamtri.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Detail of [[Johann Bayer]]'s 1603 ''[[Uranometria]]'', showing the constellations Apus, Chamaeleon, Musca (as "Apis", the Bee), and Triangulum Australe, as well as the South celestial pole.|alt=A black line drawing on faded brownish paper depicting a stylized bird with no feet and a triangle superimposed on some stars]]

Apus was one of twelve constellations published by [[Petrus Plancius]] from the observations of [[Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser]] and [[Frederick de Houtman]] who had sailed on the first Dutch trading expedition, known as the ''[[First Dutch Expedition to Indonesia|Eerste Schipvaart]]'', to the [[East Indies]]. It first appeared on a 35-cm (14&nbsp;in) diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius with [[Jodocus Hondius]].<ref name=ridpathbayer>{{cite web| url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/bayer-southern.html | title=Johann Bayer's Southern Star Chart|last1=Ridpath|first1=Ian|author-link=Ian Ridpath|publisher=self-published |work=Star Tales | access-date= 30 May 2016}}</ref><!-- cites previous 2 sentences --> De Houtman included it in his southern star catalogue in 1603 under the Dutch name ''De Paradijs Voghel'', "The Bird of Paradise",<ref name="ley196312">{{Cite magazine
 |last=Ley
 |first=Willy
 |date=December 1963
 |title=The Names of the Constellations
 |department=For Your Information
 |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v22n02_1963-12#page/n46/mode/1up
 |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction
 |pages=90–99
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/startales1c.html#houtman | title=Frederick de Houtman's Catalogue|last1=Ridpath|first1=Ian|publisher=self-published |work=Star Tales | access-date= 30 May 2016}}</ref> and Plancius called the constellation ''Paradysvogel Apis Indica''; the first word is [[Dutch language|Dutch]] for "bird of paradise". ''Apis'' (Latin for "bee") is assumed to have been a typographical error for ''avis'' ("bird").{{r|ley196312}}<ref name="ridpath">{{cite web |url = http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/apus.html |title = Apus |last = Ridpath |first = Ian |work = Star Tales |access-date = 10 April 2012}}</ref>

After its introduction on Plancius's globe, the constellation's first known appearance in a celestial atlas was in German cartographer [[Johann Bayer]]'s ''[[Uranometria]]'' of 1603.<ref name=ridpathbayer/> Bayer called it ''Apis Indica'' while fellow astronomers [[Johannes Kepler]] and his son-in-law [[Jakob Bartsch]] called it ''Apus'' or ''Avis Indica''.<ref name=wagman>{{cite book| last = Wagman |first = Morton| date = 2003| title = Lost Stars: Lost, Missing and Troublesome Stars from the Catalogues of Johannes Bayer, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and Sundry Others| publisher = The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company| location = Blacksburg, Virginia| isbn = 978-0-939923-78-6 |pages=30–32}}</ref> The name ''Apus'' is derived from the Greek ''apous'', meaning "without feet". This referred to the Western misconception that the bird-of-paradise had no feet, which arose because the only specimens available in the West had their feet and wings removed. Such specimens began to arrive in Europe in 1522, when the survivors of [[Ferdinand Magellan]]'s [[Timeline of the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation|expedition]] brought them home.<ref name="ridpath"/><!-- cites previous two sentences --> The constellation later lost some of its tail when [[Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille]] used those stars to establish [[Octans]] in the 1750s.<ref name="ridpath"/><!-- cites previous 1.5 sentences -->