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Figura cometas ultimos a chr. 1664 et 1665 exhibiens.

Forbes and Clark Collections Visualizing Maritime History Project

Engraving depicting the two celestial hemispheres with their stars and constellations, as well as the paths of comets across the spheres. From the book "Theatrum Cometicum", a treatise on comets. Around the hemispheres are printed notes about the comets, including the places from which they were observed on a given day. Andromeda and the whale Cetus have been pointed out with pencilled-in arrows.


whales
1668-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Lubienietzki, Stanislaus
ink; laid paper
9 1/2 in x 17 in
Netherlands: Amsterdam