Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Celestial map showing various constellations

This celestial map, from Elijah H. (Elijah Hinsdale) Burritt's
Atlas designed to illustrate the geography of the heavens (published in 1835) is both a fanciful and accurate depiction of the classical constellations.

View more "star atlases" on the Smithsonian Libraries' Galaxy of Images

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.