Celestial cartography
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Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography is the aspect of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with mapping stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on the c
Title page of the Coelum Stellatum Christianum by Julius Schiller.
This print, published in Richard Blome's "The Gentleman's Recreation" (1686) shows the diverse ways in which cosmography can be applied
Uranometria
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Uranometria is a star atlas produced by Johann Bayer. It was published in Augsburg in 1603 by Christoph Mang under the full title Uranometria: omnium asterismorum continens schemata, nova methodo deli
Celestial cartography
…1515 – First European printed star charts published in Nuremberg, Germany, engraved by Albrecht Dürer. 1603 – Uranometria, by Johann Bayer, the first western modern star map based on Tycho Brahe's and Johannes Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae 1627 – Julius Schiller published…
Uranometria's page of the constellation Orion
The Northern Hemisphere page from Johann Bayer's 1661 edition of Uranometria - the first atlas to have star charts covering the entire celestial sphere
Southern Hemisphere
The title page