Urania's Mirror Constllations, 1825

Urania's Mirror Constllations, 1825

Astronomical chart showing a camel, shepherd, and reindeer formimg the constellations. Camelopardalis is a large but faint constellation. It was created by Petrus Plancius in 1613 to represent the animal Rebecca rode to marry Isaac in the Bible. Some older astronomy books give an alternative spelling of the name, Camelopardus. Tarandus was a small constellation located between the constellations of Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis. It is also known as Rangifer. It was created by the French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier in 1736 to commemorate the expedition of Maupertuis to Lapland. The constellation is no longer in use. Custos Messium was a constellation created by Jérome Lalande in 1775 to honor Charles Messier. It was located between the constellations of Camelopardalis, Cassiopeia and Cepheus. It is no longer recognized. Urania's Mirror is a boxed set of 32 constellation cards first published by Samuel Leigh of the Strand, London, in or shortly before 1825. An unidentified lady, referred to by her nom-de-plume, Jehoshaphat Aspin, designed these whimsical astronomy cards. The engraver was Sidney Hall.

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