POLLUX

, in Astronomy, the hind twin, or the posterior part of the constellation Gemini.

Pollux is also a sixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini, or the Twins. See CASTOR and Poll<*>x, also Gemini.

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

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