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25b. Comparison of the Auriga constellation in Christoph Semler, Coelum stellatum, 1731 (left), and Johannes Hevelius, Firmamentum Sobiescianum, 1690 (right)

Note that the Semler constellation is depicted as it would appear in the sky, while the Hevelius image is reversed, as it would appear on a globe