Taurus, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:XS: 25 x 20cm HAEMATOMA OF THE BRAIN

HAEMATOMA OF THE BRAIN

Side view of a variety of Pilot fish [Naucrates ductor]

'Old Shooes for Some Broomes'

The scene is

Taurus, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:XS: 25 x 20cm HAEMATOMA OF THE BRAINThe constellation Taurus (the bull), with part of Orion (the hunter). Map 2 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