Thursday, 20 November 2014

Vintage Astronomy, Constellations of Southern Sky Poster

Here's a great poster featuring a beautiful image from deep space


tagged with: sky, constellations, nostalgic, stars, nostalgia, retro, antique, americana, vintage, celestial map

Vintage illustration Renaissance era astronomy and celestial image featuring a star chart of the southern sky, created in 1660 by Andreas Cellarius. Map of the constellations of the southern hemisphere including some signs of the Zodiac, from The Celestial Atlas, or the Harmony of the Universe. Andreas Cellarius (c.1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.

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