Description

This item is a monochrome celestial map showing both the component stars and figural representations of the constellations Aries, Pegasus, Andromeda, and Pisces. It also shows (using a figure of a star with a tail attached to it) the progress of a comet through the area.

This image depicts the passage of the Great Comet of 1664 as observed by the Dutch mathematician Erasmus Bartholin and comes from Stanislaus Lubienieck's Theatrum Cometicum.

Type

inscription

Location

top margin

Text

Figura observationum Cometae posterioris, Hasnice factarum, ad Communicationem Cl. Viri Erasmÿ Bartholini etc. pertinens. No. 19.