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-Uranometria
-Augsburg, 1603
-The Golden Age
-First great celestial atlas
-Greek letters by brightness
-Depicted magnitudes |
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-First western catalog
-less than 1000 stars
-Brightness: magnitude 1-6 |
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-Book of the fixed Stars
-Persia |
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-Firmamentum Sobiescanum
-1690
-The Golden Age
-about 1500 stars
-Constellations reversed (figures faced away)
-7 new IAU constellations
-compared them to other maps |
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-Atlas Coelestis
-1729
-The Golden age
-Arabic numeral + Latin genitive |
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-Uranographia
-The golden Age
- Last Great Celestial atlas
-Exhaustive (Busy Bode)
-Constellations boundaries
-Largest Atlas Ever |
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-New star catalog
-about 1000 stars
-prague, 1590's |
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-Deep sky
-fuzzy patches
-New General Catalogue/index Catalogue |
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-poet
-principal source of ancient mythology
-COSMOGONY
-WORKS AND DAYS |
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1912
Discovered Period luminosity relation
Severely deaf |
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Grandson of Timur, predecessor of Mughal emperors
-Turkic w/mongol mantle
-Astronomer sultan, 1411
-Observatory at Samarkand, 1428
-Sultan's Star Tables about 1000 stars
-Executed by son, 1449 |
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-1st printed celestial atlas
-1st labeling by mag
-N,E,S,W
-No Constellation figures
-popular: 14 editions |
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-1st coordinate grid with scale
-Copernicus' astronmetry
-External/reverse view
-Astronomy handbook
-Popular: 7 editions |
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-Roman empire at its largest, AD 125
-Fortified boundaries
-Enforced peace, patron of the arts |
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-Director of Bonn Observatory
-definitive catalog
-Astrometry of 325,000
-Pistor meridian circle telescope |
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