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7. Let me finish this discussion with a magnificent globe of the southen sky, where we can find Crux in front of the ship Argo, below the Man-horse (Centaurus):

According to Ian Ridpath's site the globe was created by Willem Janszoon Blaeu in 1602. He was the first European to see the coast of Australia, says Wikipedia.

I have turned the picture around so the shadowy side will be at left. The right side in the light will correspond to how spring south of the equator arrives after Crux and Corvus rise heliacally.