The Celestial Globe Learning Leafet: Constellations Lynx Open Ed An Introduction History of Science Collections University of Oklahoma Libraries

Vincenzo Coronelli, Celestial Globe Gores (Paris 1693; reprint ca. 1800).

Exhibit: Galileo’s World | Gallery: The Sky at Night | No.: 11 Download learning leafets at lynx-open-ed.org; read more in the Exhibit Guide (iBook Store). What's different about these two constellation fgures?

Johann Bode, Hevelius, Uranographia (1690) Uranographia (1801)

Coronelli, a Franciscan theologian and The night sky looks like an upside!down bowl set on the astronomer, created the gores on the horizon,butasitturnsaroundduringthenightitiseasyto front of this sheet. Makers of globes think of it as a giant sphere. Think of the stars as bright printed sheets of map sections, called points of light lying on the inside surface of a giant gores, which were then hand!colored, cut celestial sphere. This sphere rotates around us once a day. out and glued onto a wood and paper! Amodeloftheskyasacelestial globe explains the appearances maché base. of the sky with simplicity and elegance. With good reason this The gores depicted on the front and common!sense explanatory scheme was adopted by ancient below are part of a set of 24 produced to astronomers, and it remains the most convenient way for pilots, make a 3.5 foot diameter celestial globe. sailors and navigators to learn observational astronomy today. They were designed by Arnold Deuvez and engraved by Jean!Baptiste Nolin in Observe: Do the Paris. OU posseses reprints made in 1800 constellations on a using the original plates created in 1693. celestial globe appear reversed, since you're on the "outside looking in"? Look through and across acelestialglobeto inspect constellations as they appear from Earth.

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