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

Out of This World

The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas

The Lupus and Centaurus constellations. Image source: Semler, Christoph. Coelum stellatum. Halae Magdeburgicae: [s.n.], 1731.

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Introduction

About This Exhibition

Welcome to our exhibition of celestial atlases!

The exhibition contains forty-three star atlases and maps, covering the period from 1482 to 1851. Focal points include all five of the "Grand" celestial atlases--Johann Bayer's Uranometria (1603), Julius Schiller's Coelum Christianum, Johann Hevelius's Firmamentum (1690), John Flamsteed's Atlas coelestis (1729), and Johann Bode's Uranographia (1801)--as well as such colorful jewels as Andreas Cellarius's monumental Harmonia macrocosmica (1661) and Johann Rost's tiny Atlas portatalis coelestis (1723).

The exhibition was updated on January 21, 1997; a number of images have been changed or improved, and new pages have been added.