Bode’s Northern Celestial Planisphere
date: label: date made
content: 1787
notes: label: Description
content: Johann Elert Bode (1747-1826) served as the director of the astronomical observatory of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, edited the <i>Astronomisches Jahrbuch</i>, and published several popular texts and atlases. This planisphere is derived from a chart in his <i>Anleitung zur Kenntniss des gestirnten Himmels</i> (Hamburg, 1768). It extends from the north equatorial pole to 38° South declination, and shows the stars of magnitudes 1 to 6. The brightest stars are identified by Bayer letters. Some stars are named.
label: Description
content: The text at the top reads “STEREOGRAPHISCHER ENTWURF DES GESTIRNTEN HIMMELS / vom Nordpol bis zum 38sten Grad südlicher Abweichung von HERRN. I. BODE / New herausgegeben von HERRAN F. A. SCHRÆMBL”. The texts at bottom read “Gestochen von I. Alberti in Wien” and “Zu finden im eigenen Verlage in Wien. 1787.” Ignazio Albert was a painter and engraver in Vienna. Franz Anton Schraembl was a cartographic publisher in Vienna.
label: Description
content: Ref: Deborah Warner, <i>The Sky Explored. Celestial Cartography 1500-1800</i> (New York, 1979), pp. 34-39.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria: Vienna state, Vienna
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.329960
label: catalog number
content: 329960
label: accession number
content: 286290
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 in x 25 in x 23 in; 66.04 cm x 63.5 cm x 58.42 cm