how did we find constellations ?

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I don’t understand how one night a guy looked at the stars and said that if you draw a line between certain stars you can see a lion. And also were they chosen at random?

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Pattern finding is natural part of how our brains work. Look at how easy it is for us to see faces in inanimate objects.

Also, the sky was a lot more impressive back then than it is to someone in a modern city full of light pollution. There were a lot more stars to choose from.

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