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Star Lore Marmor Sculptile The Bust

Marmor Sculptile is a now obsolete constellation designed in 1810 by William Croswell.

In 1810, Boston cartographer William Croswell created a large star map called Mercator Map of the Starry Heavens. The map showed all the classical constellations and the new southern hemisphere constellations created by Dutch navigators Keyser and de Houtman. In addition, Croswell tried to put his own designs in the stars with Sciurus Volans in the northern and Marmor Sculptile in the southern hemisphere. Marmor Sculptile is a bust of explorer Christopher Columbus. For its creation, Croswell used the stars used 54 years earlyer by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille to construct the constellation Reticulum Croswell's map of 1810 was the only map to ever show his two creations. Source: John C. Barentine: Uncharted Constellations

Marmor Sculptile on Croswell's Mercator Map of the Starry Heavens Sources: Library of Congress, Wikimedia

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