Septentrional

][2]"Septentrional" is more or less synonymous with the term "boreal", derived from Boreas, a Greek god of the North Wind.

"[4] Writing of Johann Georg Keyßler in 1758, Thomas Gray distinguished between "Celtic" and "septentrional" antiquities.

[5] Thomas Percy actively criticised the blurring of the Celtic and the Germanic in the name of the "septentrional", while at the same time Ossianism favoured it.

[6] James Ingram in his inaugural lecture of 1807 called George Hickes "the first of septentrional scholars" for his pioneering lexicographical work on Anglo-Saxon.

[8] In France, the term septentrional refers to the Northern stretch of the Côtes du Rhône AOC winemaking region.

It includes the eight crus: Côte Rôtie, Condrieu, Château-Grillet, Hermitage, Saint-Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage, Cornas and Saint-Péray.

A 17th-century map of France (1687), by Alain Manesson-Mallet , shows the Septentrion atop of the chart, indicating the northern region of the country; the other regions indicated are the Occident (west), the Orient (east), and the Midy (meridion).
The asterism of the Big Dipper (shown in this star map in green) lies within the constellation of Ursa Major .
Map of the "Septentrional Hemisphere"
Planisphere of the Septentrional Heavens, c. 1720