The Celestial Atlases
The South Pole of the Sky
A sky Hevelius never saw, drawn in Gdańsk in 1690.
- Chart
- Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia
- Plate
- Table FFF, Polus Antarcticus
- 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
Table FFF of Johannes Hevelius's Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia, the atlas in his Prodromus Astronomiae, published in Gdańsk in 1690: the sky around the south celestial pole. Hevelius never saw these stars, which never rise over Gdańsk. The figures here are the newcomers of the southern sky, among them the Indian, the Peacock, the Crane, the Phoenix, the Toucan and the Southern Triangle, with the ancient Altar beside them. Hevelius died in 1687, on his seventy-sixth birthday, before the atlas was out. His wife, Elisabeth Koopman, counted the first woman astronomer, published the work after his death.
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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.
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