Flamsteed’s Southern Celestial Hemisphere
date: label: date made
content: 1729
notes: label: Description
content: Appointed in 1675 to the newly created post of Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed (1646-1719) compiled the first telescopic catalog of the positions and magnitudes of stars visible from Greenwich. He also prepared a set of celestial maps that, in his words, were to be “the glory of the work, and, next the catalogue, the usefullest part of it.” In 1729, these maps were published in the <i>Atlas Coelestis by the late Reverend Mr. John Flamsteed Regius Professor of Astronomy at Greenwich</i> by his friends Joseph Crosthwait and Abraham Sharp. This engraving was plate 27 in that work.
label: Description
content: This planisphere extends from the south equatorial pole to the equator. It is drawn on a polar stereographic projection, and shows the stars of magnitudes 1 to 8, with the brightest ones identified by Bayer letters. It was drawn by Abraham Sharp, and differs in style and content from the individual constellation maps in the <i>Atlas Coelestis</i>. It has been hand-colored.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330387
label: catalog number
content: 330387
label: accession number
content: 289789
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 1/2 in; 49.53 cm