The Zodiac
Gemini, the Twins
Castor and Pollux, turned to face the viewer in 1729.
- Chart
- Atlas Coelestis
- Astronomer
- John Flamsteed
- Date
- 1729
- 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
Gemini from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, published in 1729 by his widow, ten years after his death. Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal and laid the foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory; his Catalogus Britannicus held some 3,000 stars. The figures were drawn by the painter James Thornhill, and they corrected Bayer's habit of drawing the constellations from behind. Gemini, the twins Castor and Pollux of Greek myth, is one of the twelve constellations of the zodiac and one of Ptolemy's 48. A century after Bayer, the brothers finally turn around.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Gemini, the Twins 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.
