DELPHINUS

, the Dolphin, a constellation of the northern hemisphere; whose stars, in Ptolomy's catalogue, are 10; in Tycho's the same; in Hevelius's 14; and in Flamsteed's 18.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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DEFINITION
DEFLECTION
DEGREE
DEJECTION
DEINCLINERS
* DELPHINUS
DEMETRIUS
DEMOCRITUS
DEMOIVRE (Abraham)
DEMONSTRATION
DENDROMETER