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Celeste Australe - Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere - 1760

Antique black and white celestial map showing some of the constellations in the southern hemisphere, by Pluche, 1760. This constellation map features the zodiac signs of (part of) Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius, as well as other well known star constellations such as the Dog and the Centaur. Made of two joined sheets. 11.25 x 11.25 inches to the neatline.

Date
1760
Mapmaker / publisher
Noël-Antoine Pluche
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
1,500 × 1,326 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Celeste Australe - Constellations of the Southern Hemisphere - 1760" (1760). Noël-Antoine Pluche, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celeste_Australe_-_Constellations_of_the_Southern_Hemisphere_-_1760.jpg

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