The Zodiac
Cancer, the Crab
The crab that pinched Hercules.
- Chart
- The constellation Cancer
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1603
- Held by
- e-rara.ch, Swiss rare-book libraries · via Wikimedia Commons
Finish
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
$29.00
The story
The Crab sent to harry Hercules as he battled the Hydra — crushed underfoot for its trouble, then placed among the stars for its loyalty. Faintest of the zodiac's figures, it cradles the Beehive Cluster, a shimmer of stars the ancients called the Manger. (For those born about June 21 – July 22.)
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Cancer, the Crab 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.
