![]() It is one of the first great comprehensive celestial atlases, showing both northern and southern celestial skies. Johann Bayer was a German lawyer, best known as the celestial cartographer who created Uranometria, which was published in Ulm, Germany, in 1603. He is illustrated - as shown in this celestial chart - holding a club and a lion’s skin, and wearing a sword tucked in his belt. This set in motion a series of events that led to his being killed by one of the gods or goddesses - Artemis, Aurora, or Apollo, depending on variant accounts of the story - and being placed in the heavens as a constellation. The blue area with irregular rounded edges that crosses Orion’s arm represents the Milky Way.Īccording to Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, a classic reference on Greek myths, Orion was a mighty hunter, who fell in love with the daughter of the King of Chios and received the king’s permission to marry her, but angered the king by his subsequent bad behavior. ![]() Many of the stars are labeled with Greek and Latin letters. The stars are shown in different sizes to indicate magnitude and are located against a grid to accurately show their positions. Orion is shown as a mythological figure in the classical taste. ![]() Christoph Mang et al., Ulm, Germany: 17th CenturyĪ celestial chart of the constellation Orion, from the celebrated Bayer atlas Uranometria.
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