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Spica
Spica is the brightest object in the constellation of Virgo and one of the 20 brightest stars in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation α Virginis, which is Latinised to Alpha Virginis and abbreviated Alpha Vir or α Vir. Analysis of its parallax shows that it is located 250±10 light-years from the Sun. It is a spectroscopic binary star and rotating ellipsoidal variable; a system whose two stars are so close together they are...
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Herbarius
1485 · p.294
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.104
Introductio Generalis in Rem Herbariam
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus · 1690 · p.182
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.293
Latin Herbal
1484 · p.295
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.323
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1484 · p.321
Herbarius
1485 · p.296
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.293
Latin Herbal with German Synonyms
1486 · p.296
Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)
1486 · p.291
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.425
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1322302.