Astronomy
Clusters, nebulae, and comets from Burritt's Atlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the heavens
Double stars and clusters from Burritt's Atlas designed to illustrate Burritt's Geography of the heavens
A Celestial Planisphere, or Map of the Heavens from Burritt's Atlas, designed to illustrate the geography of the heavens
A plan of the solar system exhibiting its relative magnitude and distances from Burritt's Atlas, designed to illustrate the geography of the heavens
Celestial maps from Burritt's Atlas, designed to illustrate the geography of the heavens
Planisphere from Bayer's Uranometria
Scorpio constellation from Bayer's Uranometria
Leo constellation from Bayer's Uranometria
Orion constellation from Bayer's Uranometria
This image, a chart illustrating heavenly objects, Map IX from Elijah H. Burritt’s Geology of the Heavens, is included in the Natural Histories essay by AMNH astrophysicist and Frederick Priest Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse Tyson. This chart, chosen by deGrasse Tyson for his essay, “illustrates...objects such as double stars, star clusters, nebulae, and comets, including the Comet of 1689…”
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