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A striking star chart centered on Hercules, marvelously engraved and delicately colored. It shows the featured constellation as well as Lyra [The Harp] and Corona Borealis [The Northern Crown] in color with neighboring stars and constellations without color. Jamieson's work is one of the finest of its kind in the early 19th century. Alexander Jamieson published A Celestial Atlas Comprising A System Display of the Heaven. This work was published in London by G & W.B Wittaker, T. Caddell, and N. Hailes in 1822.
The chart includes a colored Hercules, Corona, and Lyra as well as uncolored parts of the constellations of Serpens, Opgiucus, Taurus Poniatowski, Aquila, Anser, Cygnus, and Draco. Stars are shown according to their brightness and several features of particular astronomical interest are named, including the solstice colure. The section of the sky shown is visible from northern skies. This example forms part of a marvelously colored set of Jamieson works on the major constellations.
This edition of Jamieson's work was later used for Urania's Mirror, a collection of star cards with holes punched so that one could align them with the constellations.
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