"Auriga, the Waggoner, in astronomy, the name of one of the constellations in the northern hemisphere, containing 26 stars, according to Tycho Brahe; 40, according to Hevelius; and 66 in the Britannic catalogue.
"This is one of the 48 asterisms mentioned by all the ancient astronomers; and represented by the figure of an old man, in a kind of sitting posture, with a goat and her kids in his left hand, and a bridle in his right." —Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 25
"Auriga, the Waggoner, in astronomy, the name of one of the constellations in the northern hemisphere, containing 26 stars, according to Tycho Brahe; 40, according to Hevelius; and 66 in the Britannic catalogue.
"This is one of the 48 asterisms mentioned by all the ancient astronomers; and represented by the figure of an old man, in a kind of sitting posture, with a goat and her kids in his left hand, and a bridle in his right."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 25