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Its story

In the river Eridanus, that winding course crossing the southern sky, shines an orange star of K type. Its light set out almost three hundred years ago, towards the start of the eighteenth century, when the great dictionaries and encyclopaedias were beginning to give shape to Enlightenment thought. Cooler and redder than the Sun, it unfolds the warm amber proper to mature giants. Like a coppery glint on deep water, it discreetly follows the long course of the celestial river, never claiming the foreground yet never leaving its bank.