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Engraving depicting the two celestial hemispheres with their stars and constellations, as well as the paths of comets across the spheres. From the book "Theatrum Cometicum", a treatise on comets. Around the hemispheres are printed notes about the comets, including the places from which they were observed on a given day. Andromeda and the whale Cetus have been pointed out with pencilled-in arrows.


whales
1668-01-02
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Hart Nautical
Lubienietzki, Stanislaus
ink; laid paper
9 1/2 in x 17 in
Netherlands: Amsterdam