Titlebook: Star Maps; History, Artistry, a Nick Kanas Book 20122nd edition Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Ancient cosmology.Antiquarian

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,The “Big Four” of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps,o Brahe and Johannes Hevelius determined the locations of the stars using naked eye observations. Exemplified by Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed, telescopes and micrometers were added to these instruments, which made their positioning even more accurate.

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The transition to non-pictorial star maps,e located in a coordinate system that is current and very precise. What made previous maps appealing were their anthropomorphic and historic qualities (which in past times were relevant to their mapping function), but such features are now seen as so much unnecessary superficial clutter.

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Collecting celestial maps and prints,orization (if any), displaying the map, preservation, and price. Much of what will be said below could be said of any antiquarian map, be it celestial or terrestrial. I will only touch on some of the highlights specifically related to collecting celestial maps; more information is given in the references at the end.

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What is a star map?,here the quality of celestial atlases was unmatched, classical Greek traditions prevailed, and the constellations were given allegorical visual representations that consisted of heroes and heroines, real and imaginary animals, scientific instruments, and artistic tools. These images were placed in c

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European constellation development,ment of European constellations, which form the basis of the star maps that will be discussed in subsequent chapters. Like many other things astronomical, we will begin with the ancient Greeks, whose classical 48 constellations greatly influenced star map development and form the core of the system

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Early European star maps,nt ways of mapping the heavens using such media as paintings on the walls and ceilings of temples, markings on oracle bones or clay tablets, and representations on unusual flat surfaces, such as papyrus. We now are in a position to begin our journey of describing and illustrating how the heavens wer

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,The “Big Four” of the Golden Age of pictorial star maps, that attempted to accurately place the stars and planets in the heavens in coordinate systems that paralleled those on Earth. These were influenced from increasingly more accurate placement that resulted from new star catalogs that built on that of Ptolemy. Using bigger and better instruments, Tych