Space Forum / Astronomy / July 2005

From R.H. Allen's classic _Star Names: their lore and meaning_ (1899,
1963), in the article on Delta, Epsilon, and Zeta Orionis:

"The University of Leipsic [= Leipzig], in 1807, gave to the Belt and
the stars in the Sword the new title *Napoleon*, which a retaliating
Englishman offset by *Nelson*; but neither of these has been
recognized on star-maps or -globes."

See <http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/pd000226.html> for a
contemporary cartoon -- unfortunately the image is too indistinct to
read the text not quoted in the caption.