The Zodiac
Scorpio, the Scorpion
The sting that felled Orion.
- Chart
- The constellation Scorpius
- 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 Scorpion sent to kill the boastful hunter Orion — and so the two were placed at opposite ends of the sky, so that as one rises, the other flees below the horizon, eternally. Its heart burns with red Antares, "the rival of Mars," and its long tail curves to a raised sting. (For those born about October 23 – November 21.)
See it on your wall
A window onto the heavens, in your home
Scorpio, the Scorpion 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.
