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There is almost certainly no record of this. The Big Dipper is part of Ursa Major and the Little Dipper is Ursa Minor. Given the latin names and the fact that both are easily visible with the naked eye means that they would have been discovered millenia ago.
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∙ 12y agoProbably Uggghh the Caveman. The individual stars that make up the Big Dipper (an asterism, or smaller grouping of stars in the constellation Ursa Major) have existed for many millions or billions of years. But the constellations do not really exist in the skies; they are only in the perceptions of the human beings who see these random lights in the sky and identify a pattern.
So it took a human being who knew what a "dipper" was in order to see a pattern in the sky that vaguely resembled the tool he used to scoop up water.
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∙ 10y agoThe constellation Ursa Minor was named by the ancient Greeks; it was one of the constellations listed by Claudius Ptolemy in his star catalog "Almagest".
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