The Constellations
Perseus, Andromeda and Cassiopeia
One Greek story, told across one stretch of the northern sky.
- Chart
- Uranographia
- Astronomer
- Johann Elert Bode
- Date
- 1801
- Held by
- e-rara.ch, Swiss rare-book libraries · 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 plate from Johann Elert Bode's Uranographia, Berlin, 1801: Perseus, the hero of Greek legend, with Andromeda to the west and Cassiopeia to the north, the figures of one story sharing one sky. Perseus was among the 48 ancient constellations Ptolemy listed. Star atlases of the early nineteenth century sometimes drew the hero holding the severed head of Medusa. Bode's plates aimed at both the exact position of every star and the full drawn figure, and the result is counted the climax of that art. Andromeda was rescued from the sea monster by this hero, and the sky keeps them close.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Perseus, Andromeda and Cassiopeia 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 e-rara.ch, Swiss rare-book libraries · 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.
