Editing Argo Navis (section)

===Development of the Greek constellation===
Argo Navis is known from Greek texts, which derived it from [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]] around 1000&nbsp;BC.<ref name=jb>{{cite book |last=Barentine |first=John |title=A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-22795-5 |pages=72–73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_7NCgAAQBAJ |via=Google Books |ref=Barentine}}</ref> [[Plutarch]] attributed it to the Egyptian "Boat of [[Osiris]]."<ref name=jb/>  Some academics theorized a [[Sumer]]ian origin related to the [[Epic of Gilgamesh]], a hypothesis rejected for lack of evidence that [[Mesopotamia|Mesopotamian]] cultures considered these stars, or any portion of them, to form a boat.<ref name=jb/>

Over time, Argo became identified exclusively with ancient Greek myth of [[Jason]] and the [[Argonauts]]. In [[Ptolemy]]'s  ''[[Almagest]]'', Argo Navis occupies the portion of the Milky Way between [[Canis Major]] and [[Centaurus]], with stars marking such details as the "little shield", the "steering-oar", the "mast-holder", and the "stern-ornament",<ref>{{cite book |last=Toomer |first=G.J. |title=Ptolemy's Almagest |date=1984 |publisher=Duckworth & Co. Ltd. |isbn=0715615882 |page=403 |url=https://isidore.co/calibre/get/pdf/Ptolemy%26%2339%3Bs%20Almagest%20-%20Ptolemy%2C%20Claudius%20%26amp%3B%20Toomer%2C%20G.%20J__5114.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://isidore.co/calibre/get/pdf/Ptolemy%26%2339%3Bs%20Almagest%20-%20Ptolemy%2C%20Claudius%20%26amp%3B%20Toomer%2C%20G.%20J__5114.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live}}</ref> which continued to be reflected in cartographic representations in celestial atlases into the nineteenth century (see below). The ship appeared to rotate about the pole sternwards, so nautically in reverse. [[Aratus]], the Greek poet / historian living in the third century&nbsp;BCE, noted this backward progression writing, "Argo by the ''Great Dog's'' [Canis Major's] tail is drawn; for hers is not a usual course, but backward turned she comes&nbsp;...".<ref name="Brown Jr.">{{cite book |last=Brown |first=Robert Jr. |title=The ''Phainomena'', or the ''Heavenly Display'' of Aratos, done into English Verse |date=1885 |publisher=Longmans, Green |location=Oxford University |page=40}}</ref>