The Celestial Atlases
Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis
The grandest star atlas of the age.
- Chart
- Atlas Coelestis
- Astronomer
- John Flamsteed
- Date
- 1729
- Held by
- Published London · 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
John Flamsteed was England's first Astronomer Royal, and his great atlas — published a decade after his death — was the largest and most magnificent of its century, its constellation figures drawn with Baroque grandeur by a painter of the royal court. Where earlier atlases prized compactness, Flamsteed's prized splendour, each figure sweeping across a huge plate in robes and sinew. The culmination of two centuries of celestial cartography, and the last word before the age of pure scientific austerity set in.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis 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 London · 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.
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