The Celestial Atlases
Bayer's Uranometria
The first atlas of the whole sky.
- Chart
- Uranometria
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1603
- Held by
- Published Augsburg · Linda Hall Library
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
In 1603 Johann Bayer produced the first atlas to chart the entire celestial sphere — and in doing so gave the stars a naming system astronomers still use four centuries later, lettering each constellation's stars by brightness with the Greek alphabet (Alpha, Beta, Gamma…). His engraved figures are among the most graceful ever drawn, the science and the art perfectly matched. Uranometria is where the modern map of the heavens truly begins — the foundation on which every star chart since has been built.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Bayer's Uranometria 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 Published Augsburg · Linda Hall Library — 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.
