Virgo. Image source: Bode, Johann Elert. Uranographia. Berlin, 1801, pl. 14.

Out of This World

The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas

Index and Exhibition List

Aratus Solensis. Hug. Grotii Syntagma Arateorum: opus poeticae et astronomiae studiosis vtilissimum. Leiden: Ex Officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorum Raphelengium, 1600. Item 8.

Argelander, Friedrich Wilhelm August. Neue Uranometrie. Berlin: Verlag von Simon Schropp u. comp., 1843. Item 43.

Bayer, Johannes. Explicatio characterum aeneis Vranometrias imaginum, tabulis, insculptorum, addita, & commodiore hac forma tertium redintegrata. Augsburg: Impensis J. Gerlini, 1654. Item 10 .

Bayer, Johannes. Uranometria. Augsburg: Excudit Christophorus Mangus, 1603. Item 9.

Bevis, John. Uranographia Britannica. London: John Neale, ca 1750. Item 28.

Bode, Johann Elert. Uranographia sive astrorum descriptio viginti tabul oeneis incisa ex recentissimis et absolutissimis Astronomorum observationibus. Berlin: apud Autorem, 1801. Item 36.

Bode, Johann Elert. Vorstellung der Gestirne aur vier und dreyssig Kupfertafeln. Berlin; Stralfund: bey Gottlieb August Lange, 1805. Item 32.

Burritt, Elijah Hinsdalt. Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens. New edition. New York: Huntington and Savage, 1835? Item 39.

Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia macrocosmica, sev Atlas universalis et nouus. Amsterdam: apud Joannem Janssonium, 1661. Item 14.

Coronelli, Vincenzo Maria. Epitome cosmografica, o Compendiosa introduttions all'astronomia, geografia, & idrografia. Cologne: Ad istanza di Andrea Poletti in Venetia, 1693. Item 19.

Dien, Charles. Uranographie. Paris: Chez J. Andriveau-Goujon, 1831. Item 41.

Doppelmayr, Johann Gabriel. Atlas coelestis. Nuremberg: Heredum Homannianorum, 1742. Item 26.

Firmicus Maternus, Julius. Matheseos liber. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1499. Item 3.

Flamsteed, John. Atlas celeste arranjado por Flamsteed ... correcto, e augmentado por Lalande, e Mechain. Lisbon: Na Impressao Regia, 1804. Item 35.

Flamsteed, John. Atlas celeste de Flamsteed, approuve par' l'Academie royal des sciences. Seconde edition. Paris: Chez F. G. Deschamps [et chez] l'auteur, 1776. Item 30.

Flamsteed, John. Atlas celeste de Flamsteed, publie en 1776. Troisieme edition. Paris: Chez Lamarche, 1795. Item 33.

Flamsteed, John. Atlas coelestis. London, 1729. Item 27.

Gallucci, Giovanni Paolo. Theatrum mundi, et temporis. Venice: Apud Ioannem Baptistam Somascum, 1588. Item 7.

Goldbach, Christian Friedrich. Neuster Himmels-Atlas zum Gebrauche fur Schul- und Akademischen Unterricht, nach Flamsteed. Weimar: Industrie - Comptoirs, 1799. Item 34.

Hevelius, Johannes. Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia. Gdansk: typis J.-Z. Stollii, 1690. Item 22.

Honter, Johannes. "Imagines Constellationum Borealium" and "Imagines Constellationum Australium." Omnia, quae extant, opera. Basel: apud Henricum Petrum, 1541. Item 5.

Hyginus. De mundi et sphere ac utriusq[ue] partium declaratione cu[m] planetis et varijs signis historiatis. Venice: Per Melchiorem Sessa, 1512. Item 4.

Hyginus. Poeticon astronomicon. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 1482. Item 1.

Kepler, Johannes. De stella nova in pede serpentarii. Prague: Typis Pauli Sessii; impensis authoris, 1606. Item 11.

La Caille, Nicolas. "Table des Ascensions Droites..."Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 1752. Paris, 1756. Item 29.

La Hire, Philippe. Planisphere celeste septentrional [-meridional]. Paris: Chez N. de Fer, 1705. Item 21.

Littrow, Joseph Johann, Edler von. Atlas des gestirnten Himmels. Stuttgart: Hoffmann'sch Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1839. Item 38.

Lubieniecki, Stanislaw. Theatrum cometicum. Amsterdam: Typis Danielis Baccamude, apud Franciscum Cuperum, 1666-1668. Item 16.

Manilius, Marcus. The Sphere of Marcus Manilius Made an English poem: With Annotations and an Astronomical Appendix by Edward Sherburne. London: Printed for Nathanael Brooke, 1675. Item 15.

Messier, Charles. "Carte celeste qui represente la route apparente de la comete de 1779..." Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences, 1779. Paris, 1782. Item 31.

Mollinger, Otto. Mollinger's Himmels-Atlas mit transparenten Sternen. Solothurn: s.n., 1851. Item 42.

Pardies, Ignace Gaston. Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti description. Second edition. Paris: Chez Guillaume Vallet, 1690. Item 18.

Pardies, Ignace Gaston. Globi coelestis in tabulas planas redacti description. Paris: Excudebat Sebastianus Mabre Cramoisy, 1674. Item 17.

Piccolomini, Alessandro. De la sfera del mondo...; De le stelle fisse. Venice: al segno del Pozzo, 1540. Item 6.

Ptolemy, Claudius. Almagestum. Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein, 1515. Item 2.

Rost, Johann Leonhard. Atlas portatilis coelestis. Nuremberg: Verlegt und zu finden bey Johann Christoph Weigel, 1723. Item 23.

Rubie, G. The British Celestial Atlas. London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1830. Item 40.

Schiller, Julius. Coelum stellatum Christianum concavum. Augsburg: Praelo Andreae Apergeri, 1627. Item 13.

Schiller, Julius. Coelum stellatum Christianum. Augsburg: Praelo Andreae Apergeri, 1627. Item 12.

Seller, John. Atlas Coelestis: Containing the Systems and Theoryes of the Planets, the Constellations of the Starrs, and Other Phenomina's of the Heavens. London: Sold by Ier: Seller & Cha: Price, 1700? Item 20.

Semler, Christoph. Coelum stellatum in quo asterisimi I. Boreales II. Zodiacales III. Australes... exhibentur. Halle Magdeburgicae: s.n., 1731. Item 25.

Thomas, Corbinianus. Mercurii philosophici firmamentum firmianum descriptionem et vum globi artificialis coelistis. Frankfurt; Leipzig: [s.n.], 1730. Item 24.

Wollaston, Francis. A Portraiture of the Heavens, as They Appear to the Naked Eye. London: Printed for J. Cary, 1811. Item 37.