The Constellations
Argo Navis, the Ship
A constellation that no longer exists, at full sail.
- Chart
- Uranometria
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1603
- Held by
- raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
A chart from Johann Bayer's Uranometria, published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mang. Argo Navis is the ship of the Argonauts, once a single great constellation of the southern sky, 28 percent larger than the next largest and carrying more than 160 easily visible stars. It proved unwieldy. In his catalogue of 1755 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided it into three modern constellations, Carina, the keel, among them. Bayer's plate shows the ship whole, as Ptolemy listed it, a century and a half before it was broken up. No astronomer draws it now, and that is the reason to hang it.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Argo Navis, the Ship printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of a public-domain chart held by raremaps.com · via Wikimedia Commons — the work is centuries out of copyright.
- Printed to order on EMA matte art paper, 200gsm. Framed pieces sit in a box frame under acrylic, with no mount (gold-ink editions on specialist press).
- Color-managed to the source scan; we correct nothing and invent nothing.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Why our charts cost more than a poster: we print from the highest-resolution scans in existence, at sizes where the engraving itself becomes visible — the gold figures, the tiny stars, the cartouches — on a matte sheet that shows every line without glare.
