Editing Caelum (section)

== History ==
Caelum was incepted as one of fourteen southern constellations in the 18th century by [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille]], a French astronomer and celebrated of the [[Age of Enlightenment]].<ref name="LacailleStarTales">{{cite web|url = http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/lacaille.html |work = Star Tales |title = Lacaille |last = Ridpath |first = Ian |access-date=3 May 2014 |publisher=self-published}}</ref>
It retains its name ''Burin'' among French speakers, Latinized in his catalogue of 1763 as ''Caelum Sculptoris'' (“''Engraver's Chisel''”).<ref>''Coelum australe stelliferum'', [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille|N. L. de Lacaille]], 1763</ref>
[[File:Sidney Hall - Urania's Mirror - Canis Major, Lepus, Columba Noachi & Cela Sculptoris.jpg|thumb|left|Seen as “Cela Sculptoris” in the lower right of this 1825 star chart from ''[[Urania's Mirror]]''|alt=Caelum depicted in ''Urania's Mirror'']]
[[Francis Baily]] shortened this name to ''Caelum'', as suggested by [[John Herschel]].<ref name="CaelumStarTales">{{cite web |url = http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/caelum.html |work = Star Tales |title = Caelum |last = Ridpath |first = Ian |access-date=3 May 2014 |publisher=self-published}}</ref> In Lacaille's original chart, it was shown as a pair of engraver's tools: a standard [[Burin (engraving)|burin]] and more specific shape-forming [[échoppe]] tied by a ribbon, but came to be ascribed a simple chisel.<ref name="CaelumStarTales"/> [[Johann Elert Bode]] stated the name as plural with a singular possessor, ''Caela Scalptoris'' &ndash; in German (''die''<sub>&nbsp;</sub>) ''Grabstichel'' (“''the Engraver’s Chisels''”) &ndash; but this did not stick.<ref name="wagman"/><ref>J. E. Bode: ''Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung der Gestirne nebst Verzeichniß der geraden Aufsteigung und Abweichung von 17240 Sternen, Doppelsternen, Nebelflecken und Sternhaufen.'' Berlin, 1801, p.17</ref>

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