Star Names
Star-Names and Their Meanings (retitled Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning in some later reprints) is an 1899 book by Richard Hinckley Allen, that discusses the names of stars, constellations, and their histories. == Background and authorship == Richard Hinckley Allen (1838, near Buffalo, New York – 1908, Northampton, Massachusetts) was a youthful polymath with interests in "nature, astronomy, ornithology, and literature" whom his classmates described as "the walking encyclopedia"; after a college year spent at Yale, a pursuit abandoned because of problems with his eyesight, he traveled and then "joined his father’s export trade business".