-----------------------------------------------http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/volans.htm wrote:
<<[Volans (L. flying) is] one of the 12 new constellations introduced at the end of the 16th century by the Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman. Volans represents a real type of fish found in tropical waters that can leap out of the water and glide through the air on wings. Sometimes the fish landed on the decks of ships and were used for food. The constellation was first depicted in 1598 on a 35-cm diameter globe by the Dutchman Petrus Plancius under the name Vliegendenvis. Bayer in 1603 called it Piscis Volans, the title by which it became generally known. Its brightest stars are of only fourth magnitude, none are named, and there are no legends associated with it.>>
_____ Finnegans Wake
[FW 432.5] I rise, O fair assemblage! Andcommincio. Now then, after
this introit of exordium, my galaxy girls, quiproquo of directions
[FW 488.15] One might hear in their beyond that lionroar in the air
again, the zoohoohoom of Felin make Call. Bruin goes to Noble,
aver who is? If is itsen? Or you mean Nolans but Volans, an
alibi, do you Mutemalice, suffering unegoistically from the singular
but positively enjoying on the plural? Dustify of that sole, you
breather! Ruemember, blither, thou must lie!
[FW 558.18] this sentence to be carried out tomorrowmorn
by Nolans Volans at six o'clock shark,
