The Zodiac
Capricorn, the Sea-Goat
The strangest creature in the zodiac.
- Chart
- The constellation Capricornus
- Astronomer
- Johann Bayer
- Date
- 1655 edition of 1603
- Held by
- David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and 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 Sea-Goat — a goat with the tail of a fish — one of the oldest and oddest figures in the sky, born when the god Pan leapt into a river to escape a monster and was transformed half-and-half in his panic. Here the Sun once stood at the winter solstice, the year's turning point. (For those born about December 22 – January 19.)
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Capricorn, the Sea-Goat 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 David Rumsey Map Collection · via Internet Archive and 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.
