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'The Messenger of Peace'
Original: pencil and ink on paper
Inscribed 'Cartilaginei Longi' and 'Zygana Salviary'
Punch says: Surely
Northern planisphere, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' York Stairs 'The Messenger of Peace'The stars of the northern hemisphere. Map 27 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729
