Saturday 11 August 2012

Reflections of Urania's Mirror : Various Artists

Urania, o'er her star-bespangled lyre,
With touch of majesty diffused her soul;
A thousand tones, that in the breast inspire,
Exalted feelings, o er the wires'gan roll—
How at the call of Jove the mist unfurled,
And o'er the swelling vault—the glowing sky,
The new-born stars hung out their lamps on high,
And rolled their mighty orbs to music's sweetest sound.
—From An Ode To Music by James G. Percival

Sidney Hall

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Henry Fuseli

Limbourg Brothers

Carl Otto Czeschka

Charles Meynier

W. T. Benda

Andreas Cellarius

Emile Bayard

Goltzius

Edmonia Lewis

Hevelius

artist unknown

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Ludovisi Altemps

from the Mantegna Arcana

Ramdohr (?)

Michael Maier

Alexander Jamieson

from an Austro-Bohemian ms

Armenian star chart

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Ripley Rolle Manuscript 16th C

Sidney Hall

? 19th C

The Flammarion Woodcut

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John Flamsteed

Sejong Star Chart

E. Weiss

Henry Robinson

from Arthur Mee's  'The Children's Encyclopedia'

Louis Tocque

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania

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