The Constellations
Cetus, with Mira
The sea monster that carries Hevelius's wonderful star.
- Chart
- Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia
- Astronomer
- Johannes Hevelius
- Date
- 1690
- 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
Cetus from the Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia of Johannes Hevelius, published in Gdańsk in 1690. The sea monster of Greek myth, sent against Andromeda and killed by Perseus, holds a star Hevelius made famous. In 1662 he published Historiola Mirae, naming the variable star Omicron Ceti Mira, the Wonderful, for the way it fades and returns. By the time this atlas appeared Hevelius was dead. He died on his seventy-sixth birthday in 1687, and his wife Elisabeth Koopman brought the work out three years later. The monster's wonderful star is his.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Cetus, with Mira 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.
