Alexander Jamieson's Celestial Atlas - Southern Hemisphere Gold on Black Edition
by Serge Averbukh
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Title
Alexander Jamieson's Celestial Atlas - Southern Hemisphere Gold on Black Edition
Artist
Serge Averbukh
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting
Description
Introducing ‘Celestial Maps’ collection by Serge Averbukh, showcasing new media reproductions of various historical and modern masterpieces of celestial cartography. Here you will find pieces featuring Alexander Jamieson’s Celestial Atlas - Northern Hemisphere Gold on Black Edition.
Celestial cartography, uranography, astrography or star cartography is the fringe of astronomy and branch of cartography concerned with mapping stars, galaxies, and other astronomical objects on the celestial sphere. Measuring the position and light of charted objects requires a variety of instruments and techniques. These techniques have developed from angle measurements with quadrants and the unaided eye, through sextants combined with lenses for light magnification, up to current methods which include computer-automated space telescopes. Uranographers have historically produced planetary position tables, star tables, and star maps for use by both amateur and professional astronomers. More recently computerized star maps have been compiled, and automated positioning of telescopes is accomplished using databases of stars and other astronomical objects.
A Celestial Atlas, full title A Celestial Atlas Comprising A Systematic Display of the Heavens in a Series of Thirty Maps Illustrated by Scientific Description of their Contents, And accompanied by Catalogues of the Stars and Astronomical Exercises is a star atlas by British author Alexander Jamieson, published in 1822. The atlas includes 30 plates, 26 of which are constellation maps with a sinusoidal projection. Some of the plates are hand-colored. The atlas includes a then-new, now-obsolete constellation Noctua, Norma Nilotica, and Solarium. Two celestial hemispheres of the atlas are centered on the equatorial poles via polar projection and geocentric alignment. The atlas comprises stars visible only to the naked eye, making it less cluttered.
Unlike Johann Elert Bode and Jean Nicolas Fortin, who followed John Flamsteed’s depictions of the constellations, Jamieson allowed himself greater artistic expression. The constellation figures in Jamieson's atlas are more realistically drawn, particularly compared to Flamsteed’s depictions of Lacerta, Lynx, Cancer, Scorpius and Canis Major. At the same time the atlas' plates were made at the size of those by Bode and Fortin, at approximately 9 in × 7 in (22.5 × 17.5 cm), with the same number of them (26 plus hemispheres) and each covering the same area of sky. Jamieson also followed Bode’s approach of drawing boundary lines between constellations. The atlas was popular and was allowed to be dedicated to King George IV.
The drawings in A Celestial Atlas were plagiarised in Urania's Mirror, published a few years later.
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