The Celestial Atlases
Hevelius's Uranographia
The sky, drawn from the outside.
- Chart
- Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia
- Astronomer
- Johannes Hevelius
- Date
- 1687
- Held by
- Published Danzig · 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
Johannes Hevelius drew the heavens as almost no one else dared — not as we see them from Earth, but as if viewed from outside the celestial sphere, looking back, so his constellations appear mirror-reversed, like a god's-eye view. He invented several constellations that endure to this day, among them the Shield, the Lynx, and the Hunting Dogs. A brilliant, willful masterpiece from the last great astronomer to map the stars by naked eye alone, before the telescope changed everything.
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Hevelius's Uranographia 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 Danzig · 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.
