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Click this link to open the Source page for Bayer's Uranometria: http://skytonight.org/Bayer-1661 

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Galileo's World gallery Many of the star atlases from the History of Science Collections at OU were displayed in a major Galileo's World exhibit in 2015-2016. If so, this link takes you to the gallery in which that work was displayed, on the Lynx Open Ed website. Explore the exhibit from the Galileo's World landing page.
OU Libraries Repository The works displayed in Galileo's World are being digitized by OU Libraries and will eventually appear at repository.ou.edu. A link in this field takes you directly to the source there so that you can examine the entire book.
Linda Hall Library: Out of This World The Out of This World online exhibit of the Linda Hall Library is a venerable and informative website for star atlases. Highly recommended.
Ridpath, Star Tales This website is a companion to Ian Ridpath's book of the same title. Great for constellation stories and for star atlas information.
Atlas Coelestis Another helpful website for star atlas information.
Wikipedia Direct links to Wikipedia appear here for the source author and title, when available.

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Source ID This is the unique ID# for this source.
Citation Beneath the Source ID is a citation you can copy and paste into any application.
Language The language of the star maps, and therefore likely of the book as a whole.
Tradition

The constellation figures may represent various cultures and traditions, including:

  • African American
  • Asian
  • Biblical  
  • Copernican
  • Cuneiform Mesopotamian 
  • Egyptian or Hieroglyphic
  • Hebrew or Kabbalah
  • Indigenous or Native American
  • Islamic 
  • Modern (88 IAU constellations)  
  • Ptolemaic (48 ancient constellations)
  • etc.
     
Period

Periods may include:

  • Prehistoric
  • Paleolithic
  • Neolithic
  • Ancient    
  • Late Ancient  
  • Medieval
  • 15th century
  • 16th century 
  • Early Modern
  • 17th century    
  • 18th century
  • Modern
  • 19th century    
  • 20th century    
  • Medieval    
  • Ming dynasty        
  • Qing dynasty
  • etc.
Continent Any of the Earth's continents.
Geographical Region Geographical areas smaller than continents, larger than countries.
Country The names of the modern countries which touch the place of origin.
Constellation figures drawn from

For this field and the next, images may vary within a given source. Yet the predominate practice of the book may be recorded here. Options include:

  • "Earth looking up and out" (as the sky appears to us outside); or
  • "Outside looking in" (as the sky appears on a celestial globe.
Star patterns shown from

Options include:

  • Front
  • Back or Behind: Left and right reversed (e.g., a map showing a star as the left hand when it is traditionally regarded as the right hand)
  • Side
  • Above
  • Below

 

 

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