* Astronomy

Another of the southern constellations named by Frenchman Nicolas Louis de Lacaille was originally called L'Atelier du Sculpteur, or in English, Workshop of the Sculptor. Later, the name was shortened to just Sculptor. This constellation was formed from a group of stars first charted by de Lacaille on his visit to the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, in 1751 and 1752.

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