Editing Microscopium (section)

==History==
Microscopium lies in a region where Ptolemy had listed six 'unformed' stars behind the tail of Piscis Austrinus.<ref name=ridpathmic>{{cite web |url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/microscopium.html |title=Microscopium the Microscope |work=Star Tales |author=Ridpath, Ian |publisher=Online edition |access-date=22 July 2023|author-link=Ian Ridpath }}</ref> [[Al-Sufi]] did not include these stars in his revision of the ''Almagest'', presumably because he could not identify them.<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Hafez|first=Ihsan|date=October 2010|title=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi and his book of the fixed stars: a journey of re-discovery|url=https://researchonline.jcu.edu.au/28854/|journal=James Cook University|page=251|type=phd}}</ref> Microscopium was introduced in 1751–52 by Lacaille with the French name ''le Microscope'',<ref name=ridpathlac>{{cite web |url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/lacaille.html |title=Lacaille's Southern Planisphere of 1756 |work=Star Tales |author=Ridpath, Ian |publisher=Online edition |access-date=19 March 2015|author-link=Ian Ridpath }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Lacaille, Nicolas Louis |year=1756 |title=Relation abrégée du Voyage fait par ordre du Roi au cap de Bonne-espérance |journal=Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences |pages=519–592 [589] |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k35505/f787 |language=fr}}</ref> after he had observed and catalogued 10,000 southern stars during a two-year stay at the [[Cape of Good Hope]]. He devised fourteen new constellations in uncharted regions of the [[Southern Celestial Hemisphere]] not visible from Europe. All but one honoured instruments that symbolised the [[Age of Enlightenment]].{{sfn|Wagman|2003|pp=6–7}} Commemorating the [[Optical microscope#compound microscope|compound microscope]],<ref name=ridpathmic/> the Microscope's name had been Latinised by Lacaille to ''Microscopium'' by 1763.<ref name=ridpathlac/>