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Norma (constellation)
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Norma (constellation)
Norma
is a small constellation in the
Southern Celestial Hemisphere
between
Scorpius
and
Centaurus
, one of twelve drawn up in the 18th century by
French
astronomer
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
and one of several depicting scientific instruments. Its name is
Latin
for
normal
, referring to a
right angle
, and is variously considered to represent a
rule
, a
carpenter's square
, a
set square
or a
level
.
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