Star Lore Art Urania's Mirror 1824

Urania's Mirror, or a view of the Heavens was first published in November 1824 as a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards. The illustrations are based on Alexander Jamieson's Celestial Atlas. Until this day, it is one of the most popular creations of star charts. The colorful cards were designed by the Reverend Richard Rouse Bloxam and engraved by British engraver and cartographer Sidney Hall. In addition, they had holes punched in them allow them to be held up to a light to see a depiction of the constellation's stars. The cover of the box-set depicts Urania, the muse of astronomy. On 32 separate cards, Urania's Mirror illustrates 80 constellations. Some of the illustrated constellations are now obsolete. Some other constellations are now known by other, simplified names. In the alphabetical listing, we have linked every constellation to its equivalent in the 88 IAU constellations. For more references to those constellations check Wikipedia's "List of Former Constellations" and Ian Ridpath's "Obsolete Constellations". The cards are sorted by the constellation's location in the night sky and most of them contain more than one constellation. We present them here in numerical order - a table in alphabetical order with the corresponding card for each constellation can be found below the images. All images were obtained from Wikipedia's public domain. Sources: Wikipedia, atlascoelestis.com Click on the pictures for larger images.

Plate 1 Draco and Ursa Minor		Plate 2 Camelopardalis, Tarandus and Custos Messium		Plate 3 Cassiopeia

Plate 4 Cepheus		Plate 5 Gloria Frederici, Andromeda, and Triangula		Plate 6 Perseus and Caput Medusae;

Plate 7 Auriga		Plate 8 Lynx and Telescopium Herschilii		Plate 9 Ursa Major

Plate 10 Boötes, Canes Venatici, Coma Berenices, Quadrans Muralis and Mons Maenalus		Plate 11 Hercules, Ramus Pomifer and Corona Borealis		Plate 12 Taurus Poniatovii, Serpentarius, Scutum Sobiesky and Serpens

Plate 13 Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila and Antinous		Plate 14 Lacerta, Cygnus, Lyra and Vulpecula & Anser		Plate 15 Pegasus and Equuleus

Plate 16 Aries and Musca Borealis		Plate 17 Taurus		Plate 18 Gemini

Plate 19 Cancer		Plate 20 Leo Major and Leo Minor		Plate 21 Virgo

Plate 22 Libra		Plate 23 Scorpio		Plate 24 Sagittarius, Corona Australis, Microscopium and Telescopium

Plate 25 Capricornus		Plate 26 Aquarius, Piscis Australis Ballon Aerostatique		Plate 27 Pisces

Plate 28 Psalterium Georgii, Fluvius Eridanus, Cetus, Officina Sculptoris, Fornax Chemica and Machina Electrica		Plate 29 Orion		Plate 30 Canis Major, Lepus, Columba Noachi and Cela Sculptoris

Plate 31 Monoceros, Canis Minor and Atelier Typographique		Plate 32 Noctua, Corvus, Crater, Sextans Uraniæ, Hydra, Felis, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia Pneumatica, Argo Navis and Pyxis Nautica

Constellations in alphabetical order

Constellation Andromeda Antinous Antlia Pneumatica Aquarius Aquila Argo Navis Aries Officina Typographica Auriga Globus Aerostaticus Boötes Camelopardalis Cancer Canes Venatici Canis Major Canis Minor Capricornus Caput Medusae Cassiopeia Cela Sculptoris Centaurus Cepheus Cetus Columba Coma Berenices Corona Australis Corona Borealis

Plate 5 13 32 26 13 32 16 31 7 26 10 2 19 10 30 31 25 6 3 30 32 4 28 30 10 24 11

Constellation Corvus Crater Custos Messium Cygnus Delphinus Draco Equuleus Felis Eridanus Fornax Chemica Gemini Gloria Frederici Hercules Hyda Lacerta Leo Leo Minor Lepus Libra Lupus Lynx Lyra Machina Electrica Microscopium Monoceros Mons Maenalus Musca Noctua

Plate 32 32 2 14 13 1 15 32 28 28 18 5 11 32 14 20 20 30 22 32 8 14 28 24 31 10 16 32

Constellation Officina Sculptoris Orion Pegasus Perseus Pisces Piscis Australis Psalterium Georgii Pyxis Nautica Quadrans Muralis Ramus Pomifer Sagitta Sagittarius Scorpius Scutum Sobiesky Serpens Serpentarius Sextants Uraniae Tarandus Taurus Poniatovii Taurus Telescopium Herschelii Telescopium Triangula Ursa Major Ursa Minor Virgo Vulpecula & Anser

Plate 28 29 15 6 27 26 28 32 10 11 13 24 23 12 12 12 32 2 12 17 8 24 5 9 1 21 14

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