Northcote Parkinson, historian and author.HistoryNet.com is brought to you by Historynet LLC, the world's largest publisher of history magazines. The victory marked an end to the menace posed by the muslim Ottomans to the Christian world, and in 1684 Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius honored his king by naming his new constellation Scutum Sobiescianum (“Shield of Sobieski”), which was later shortened to just Scutum.Scutum (“the shield”) is an extremely small, faint southern sky constellation that was devised by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1684 to commemorate King John III Sobieski’s victory at the Battle of Vienna against the Ottoman Turkish Empire a year earlier. Kate Bush, singer, songwriter; first woman to have a UK number-one single with a self-written song ("Wuthering Heights"); appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 2013.C.
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This shield is called a scutum. Scutum, “The Shield” is another modern constellation created by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the late seventeenth century. The shields were mostly made of wood - a few layers glued together to make the curved shape. In the days of Ancient Rome, Roman soldiers often bore round shields called aspidai (ἄσπιδαι) by the Greeks, in the fashion of Greek hoplites. Its brightest star is Alpha Scuti, with a magnitude of 3.8. The shield was then covered in leather and a sheet of linen cloth added to the front. We carry the iconic Roman scutum in sturdy 18-gauge steel as well as a thick, wooden brass-line version. The Roman scutum was constructed in a rectangular and semi-cylindrical design. The star Delta Scuti is the prototype of a class of pulsating variable stars. Both are perfect for stage and media productions, or light reenactments.
This is the only known surviving example of the semicylindrical shield known as a scutum, used by Roman legionaries and known from literary sources.Found flattened, in thirteen pieces, and missing its umbo (central boss), the shield was reconstructed by the Yale-French excavation team.