Taurus
notes: label: Description
content: John Bevis (1693-1771) was a British physician and astronomer who planned a new celestial atlas patterned after that of Bayer, but with the addition of stars recently observed and catalogued. Some copies of some of Bevis’ charts were to be had in the 1740s, but it was not until 1786 that the entire set was available as the <i>Atlas Celeste</i>. This chart of the constellation Taurus is from that project. It is apparently the first chart on which the Crab Nebula (M-1) is shown.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London, City of London
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.330349
label: catalog number
content: 330349
label: accession number
content: 288766
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 30.5 cm x 37 cm; 12 in x 14 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 21 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 48.26 cm x 54.61 cm x 1.905 cm