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Atlas Celeste

Alexander Jamieson Celestial Atlas (1822)

Alexander Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas appeared in February 1822, with a second edition following in September that same year. For all the fame that the Atlas achieved, its author remains little known. He evidently had a wide knowledge of science, mathematics and languages, for he wrote a number of educational works on subjects as diverse as cartography, logic, rhetoric, algebra, mechanics and ...

The Celestial Atlas of Flamsteed (1795) – The Public

The new version, called Atlas Fortin Flamsteed, was a third of the size of the original and also had artistic retouching to some illustrations (mostly Andromeda, Virgo and Aquarius). The names of the constellations are in French (not in Latin) and included some nebulae discovered after the death of Flamsteed.

Atlas Coelestis

The Atlas Coelestis is a star atlas published posthumously in 1729, based on observations made by the First Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed.. The Atlas – the largest that ever had been published and the first comprehensive telescopic star catalogue and companion celestial atlas – contains 26 maps of the major constellations visible from Greenwich, with drawings made in the Rococo style by ...

ATLAS CELESTE Home Page mikeoates org

Atlas Celeste. The Manchester Astronomical Society have discovered an extremely rare Star Atlas. It was compiled by John Bevis in the mid eighteenth century. It was to be called the Uranographia Britannica. Only 16 copies are known!

JPARSEC Sky Atlas and calendar events for 2019

atlas are astrometric, referred to the Julian epoch of the atlas year. Some events or objects could not appear in the tables when there are too much entries. The total number of stars in the atlas is around 60000, with 1100 deep sky objects (850 in the tables), 450 double stars and 75 variable stars.