ALT 60° — THE GREAT CHARTS
The Celestial Atlases
The masterpiece charts, whole — Cellarius’s gold-and-azure hemispheres, Bayer, Hevelius, Flamsteed.
1660
The Northern Star Hemisphere
The most beautiful star chart ever printed.
Haemisphaerium Stellatum Borealeas mapped 1660
1660
The Christian Sky
When someone tried to replace the pagan constellations.
Coeli Stellati Christiani Hemisphaerium
1603
Bayer's Uranometria
The first atlas of the whole sky.
1687
Hevelius's Uranographia
The sky, drawn from the outside.
1729
Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis
The grandest star atlas of the age.
1742
The Southern Star Hemisphere
The far southern sky, gathered into one ornamented disc.
Hemisphaerium Coeli Australeas mapped 1742
1693 edition of 1674
Pardies' Globe of the Heavens
The celestial globe flattened onto six great sheets.
as mapped 1674