Description

This item is a monochrome celestial map showing both the component stars and figural representations of Cetus on panel C, and Aries and Cetus in panel B. It also shows, (using a series of figures of a star with a tail attached to it) the progress of a comet through the area.

Text on the top of the image reads "Fig. Reyheriana C. et B."

This image depicts the passage of the Great Comet of 1664 as seen by Samuel Reyher, likely in Sweden. The page comes from Stanislaus Lubienieck's Theatrum Cometicum.