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    Atlas Coelestis is a star atlas published posthumously in 1729, based on observations made by the First Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed. The Atlas –...
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    of a 3,000-star catalogue, Catalogus Britannicus, and a star atlas called Atlas Coelestis, both published posthumously. He also made the first recorded...
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    1,564 stars. 1729, Britannic Catalogue – by John Flamsteed for his Atlas Coelestis, position of more than 3,000 stars by accuracy of 10". 1903, Bonner...
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  • Coelestis, a 1993 science fiction novel by Paul Park Coelestis Pastor, a 1689 papal encyclical condemning quietism Atlas Coelestis, a 1729 star atlas...
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    S2CID 239353025. Galileo Project entry. The Atlas Coelestis (1742) of Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr. Atlas Coelestis Archived 2018-09-17 at the Wayback Machine...
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    named for John Flamsteed who first used them while compiling his Historia Coelestis Britannica. (Flamsteed used a telescope, and the catalog also includes...
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    "A cord joins the tails of Pisces, the two fishes", from Atlas Coelestis...
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    100 digits in 1706. He returned to Little Horton in 1694. When the Atlas Coelestis – the largest star map at the time – was published, it contained 26...
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    Johann Bayer was the first uranographer to put Chamaeleon in a celestial atlas. It was one of many constellations created by European explorers in the...
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  • publication of both of his most famous works: Historia Coelestis Britannica in 1725 and Atlas Coelestis in 1729. Without her, neither of these two important...
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    Science Fiction. pp. 90–99. "Le costellazioni di Petrus Plancius". Atlas Coelestis. Retrieved 2023-04-14. Ridpath, Ian. "Jacob Bartsch and seven new constellations"...
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    star", and denoted as "the star over the head". John Flamsteed, in his Atlas Coelestis, followed Ptolemy's description by mapping it above the figure's head...
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    know it. The constellation Sextans as depicted in Johann Doppelmayr's Atlas Coelestis, c. 1730 (Plate 19, Southern Celestial Hemisphere). Sextans and other...
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    Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603, and was likely conceived by Plancius from the observations...
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    It was never popular and is no longer in use. Star Tales – Solarium Atlas Coelestis/Felice Stoppa: map 25 the individual map reachable through this link...
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    Named after the mythical phoenix, it was first depicted on a celestial atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria. The French explorer and astronomer...
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    Castle Icknield St. The Street The Long Lane Science and engineering Atlas Coelestis Benjamin Vulliamy Whitehurst & Son sundial Related Derby Silk Mill...
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    Lalande 21185 Les Neuf Sœurs Felis (constellation) Quadrans Muralis Atlas Coelestis Officina Typographica VY Canis Majoris Hockey 2009, p. [page needed]...
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    among others: Atlas Coelestis Novus, Cologne, 1872. Zodiakal-Beobachtungen. Sternschnuppen-Beobachtungen. De Magnitudine, 1852. His star atlas, which was...
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    doi:10.1080/00033798700200301. Le costellazioni di Petrus Plancius, on Atlas Coelestis by Felice Stoppa Astronomical naming conventions#Names and boundaries...
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    Castle Icknield St. The Street The Long Lane Science and engineering Atlas Coelestis Benjamin Vulliamy Whitehurst & Son sundial Related Derby Silk Mill...
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    Tales. self-published. Retrieved 17 June 2023. Flamsteed, John (1729). Atlas coelestis. London, United Kingdom. pp. Constellation Map of Southern Hemisphere...
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  • Sharp, he finalised publication of Flamsteed's Historia Coelestis Britannica and Atlas Coelestis. Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R...
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    by Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille...
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    Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, but was unlabeled. It was later designated as 46 And by Jérôme Lalande. The label "ξ" was used in Atlas Coelestis, apparently...
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    Castle Icknield St. The Street The Long Lane Science and engineering Atlas Coelestis Benjamin Vulliamy Whitehurst & Son sundial Related Derby Silk Mill...
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    literatures at the time, such as the German addition of John Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis, Bode’s Uranographia, and Bode’s Allgemeine Beschreibung und Nachweisung...
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    Genealogy Project AtlasCoelestis.com: Vorstellung der Gestirne by J.E. Bode, 1782 – last. Retrieved 7 September 2007, AtlasCoelestis.com: Uranographia...
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  • significant events. Publication of the first English star atlas, John Seller's Atlas Coelestis. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz gives a complete solution to the...
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    It is only found on a few 17th-century Dutch celestial globes and in the atlas of Andreas Cellarius. It was no longer used after the 18th century. Obsolete...
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