The name Fornax means "The Laboratory Furnace" in Latin. The one, and only named star in this constellation is the star Fornacis, which has no meaning. The star was named by Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who named the star after Antoine Lavoisier who was guillotined in the French Revolution in 1794. He created the constellation out of stars in the constellation Eridanus.
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