Uranographia Britannica / John Bevis
- Bib ID:
- 8046825
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Bevis, John, 1693-1771, compiler
- Scale:
- Scale not given.
- Description:
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- London : John Bevis, 1750
- 1 atlas ([i] leaf, li leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps ; 38.8 cm
- Notes:
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- Celestial atlas showing the nominal constellation and surrounding figures of each plate. Also shows three extinct stars: the nova of 1670 in Vulpeca, M29 in Cygnus, and a star not identifiable by modern science in Ursa Minor; Tycho's nova of 1572 in Cassiopeia; and Kepler's star of 1604 in Ophiuchus.
- National Library of Australia's copy has annotations in the atlas
- Title from spine.
- On each plate is a different dedication by the author.
- Includes index.
- Described in K.J. Kilburn, J.M. Pasachoff & O. Gingerich, The forgotten star atlas: John Bevis's Uranographia Britannica, Journal of the History of Astronomy, vol. 34, 2003, pp. 125-144.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1750
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