Old Zodiac Map

[Baron von Richthofen]

Old Zodiac Map
I am looking for a picture of an Old Zodiac Map better than this one, I have seen the one I am after it was a ravensburger jigsaw a few years ago but cant find it now
I have a higher resolution photo if you want it, just email

[dpastern]

No real ideas but this reminds me that I'd love to see the Original Uranometria reprinted. It's out of copyright, yet no one seems to want to touch it :(

Dave

[ngcles]

Hi Vars, Dave & All,



This site:

http://www.aai.ee/muuseum/Uranomeetria/HTML/index.html?bayer.htm

has scans and reproductions of many of the old maps by Bayer, Hevelius, Flamsteed, Bayer and others. It's in Dutch, but not hard to navigate.

I love maps of all sorts, particularly star maps and old maps too.


Best,

Les D

[dpastern]

Thank you Les - I did Google a fair bit for Bayer's Uranometria. I am disappointed that it's not featured on www.gutenberg.org (http://www.gutenberg.org) though.

Dave

edit: I find it a bit cheeky that when you click on the link for the image, it says copyright to someone else. The Bayer Uranometria is public domain and is no longer copyrightable. I found this link, which has far better quality images imho:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/library/rare/Bayer%201661.htm