Le Globe Celeste representé en deux Plans Hemispheres par Mons De La Hire
Small copperprint of the two hemispheres celeste
Type of object:
Maps and globes
Time period:
Britain rules the waves + France
Place:
Paris
Date:
1719
Maker / Author:
Copperprint. De La Hire professor Royal et de l'Academie des Sciences. Paris
Publisher / Printer:
La Hire , Philippe de (1640-1718)
Dimensions:
21 x 16 cm
Material:
Copperprint, handcoloured
Graduation:
Inscription:
Provenance:
Chiquet encyclopaedia
References:
Description
The two hemispheres show the stars visible to the naked eye, classified into six magnitudes. The constellations are the Ptolemaic with French names to which Ganimede (Antinous), the Fleur de Lys, the Chevelure de Berenice, the Colombe and the Croix between the feet of the Centaur were added. We also find the twelve southern constellations inserted by Bayer in his Uranometry of 1603 and observed and cataloged for the first time,
during their voyages in the South Seas in the late sixteen century by Keyser and Houtman
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