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Stock# 0233ops
Description
Gorgeous map showing the constellations Pegasus and surrounding constellations, from John Flamsteed's rare celestial atlas.
Our illustration re-orients the map to show south at the top.
John Flamsteed was the first Astronomer Royal at the London Observatory, winning out over Edmund Halley and Isaac Newton. He made a copius and thorough study of the heavens, but refused to publish his works, despite the urgings of his colleagues, including Halley and Newton. Finally, his life's work was published posthumously in 1728, in what is now an extremely scarce to rare work.
![[Solar Eclipse of July 25, 1748] Die versinsterte Erdkugel d. i. Geographische Vorstellung der Sonnen od Erd-Finsternis den 25ten. Iulii Ao. 1748 . . . | le Monde Eclipse ou Representation Geographique de L'Eclipse de la Terre ou du Soleil qui arrivera le 25 Iuillet 1748 . . .](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/76844.jpg)
