Polaris
Names: Julius Caesar is addressed above, in a more useful manner
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It was invoked as a symbol of steadfastness in poetry, as "steadfast star" by [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]]. |
It was invoked as a symbol of steadfastness in poetry, as "steadfast star" by [[Edmund Spenser|Spenser]]. |
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[[Shakespeare]]'s [[sonnet 116]] is an example of the symbolism of the north star as a guiding principle: "[Love] is the star to every wandering bark / Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."{{Cite book|title=Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Teaching_to_Exceed_the_English_Language/ECpkjPn-XMIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=.+Shakespeare's+sonnet+116+is+an+example+of+the+symbolism+of+the+north+star&pg=PT95&printsec=frontcover|publisher=Routledge|date=2012-06-25|isbn=978-1-136-50288-0|language=en|first=Richard|last=Beach|first2=Amanda Haertling|last2=Thein|first3=Allen|last3=Webb|pages=Chp 6}} |
[[Shakespeare]]'s [[sonnet 116]] is an example of the symbolism of the north star as a guiding principle: "[Love] is the star to every wandering bark / Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."{{Cite book|title=Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards: A Literacy Practices Approach for 6-12 Classrooms|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Teaching_to_Exceed_the_English_Language/ECpkjPn-XMIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=.+Shakespeare's+sonnet+116+is+an+example+of+the+symbolism+of+the+north+star&pg=PT95&printsec=frontcover|publisher=Routledge|date=2012-06-25|isbn=978-1-136-50288-0|language=en|first=Richard|last=Beach|first2=Amanda Haertling|last2=Thein|first3=Allen|last3=Webb|pages=Chp 6}} |
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In ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'', Shakespeare has [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] explain his refusal to grant a pardon: "I am as constant as the northern star/Of whose true-fixed and resting quality/There is no fellow in the firmament./The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks,/They are all fire and every one doth shine,/But there's but one in all doth hold his place;/So in the world" (III, i, 65–71). Of course, Polaris will not "constantly" remain as the north star due to [[Axial precession#Changing pole stars|precession]], but this is only noticeable over centuries.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} |
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In [[Inuit astronomy]], Polaris is known as ''Nuutuittuq'' ([[Inuktitut syllabics|syllabics]]: {{lang|iu-Cans|ᓅᑐᐃᑦᑐᖅ}}).{{Cite book|last=Penprase|first=Bryan E.|title=The Power of Stars|publisher=Springer|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4419-6802-9|location=New York, NY|page=45|chapter=Northern Circumpolar Sky from Around the World: The Arctic Inuit Sky}} |
In [[Inuit astronomy]], Polaris is known as ''Nuutuittuq'' ([[Inuktitut syllabics|syllabics]]: {{lang|iu-Cans|ᓅᑐᐃᑦᑐᖅ}}).{{Cite book|last=Penprase|first=Bryan E.|title=The Power of Stars|publisher=Springer|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4419-6802-9|location=New York, NY|page=45|chapter=Northern Circumpolar Sky from Around the World: The Arctic Inuit Sky}} |
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