Altea Gallery
Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel
Hemisphaerium Coeli Boreale.
[&] Hemisphaerium Coeli
Australe
Nuremberg, Homann’s Heirs,
1742. Coloured. Two sheets, ea.
c.485 x 580mm.
The Northern and Southern
skies, divided into the Classical
Constellations. In the corners
are elevations of eight of the
most important observatories of
Europe, including Greenwich.
Most of the constellations
depicted are still familiar today,
but on the Southern sheet is
‘Robur Carolinum’ (Charles’s
Oak), introduced by Edmund
Halley in 1678 but not one of
the 88 constellations recognised
today.
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