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Jamieson Celestial Atlas
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1-14-2007 6:01 PM
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Excellent scans from a 1822 edition Celestial Atlas. A vintage from BibliOdyysey. (Check the source - many page scans.)
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They each produced renowned star atlases that combined the latest contemporary scientific knowledge with outstanding artistic craftsmanship.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/12/jamieson-celestial-atlas.html"><DIV>Johann Elert Bode's <SPAN>'Uranographia'</SPAN> <SMALL>(<A href="http://www.aai.ee/muuseum/Uranomeetria/HTML/index.html?bode.htm">b & w</A>; <A href="http://www.atlascoelestis.com/15.htm">colour</A>)</SMALL> provided the model for the 1822 publication by amateur British astronomer, Alexander Jamieson: <A href="http://www.usno.navy.mil/library/artwork/jamieson.htm"><SPAN>'A Celestial Atlas Comprising a Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps'</SPAN> which is available in high resolution format at the US Naval Observatory</A> (or click on the above images for a medium enlargement). 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