Fortin 1776 Photo Gallery by Henk Bril at pbase.com

Fortin 1776

I am the happy owner of some copper gravures with constellations from 1776.
These maps, some of them hand coloured, are from the atlas of Jean Fortin (1750-1831) "Atlas
Céleste de Flamstéed, publié en 1776", edited by Joseph Jérome le Français de Lalande & Pierre
Mechain, second edition, Paris, Lamarch 1776.
There are actually four editions of this atlas, published resp. in 1776, 1778, 1782 and 1789.
Source: Variations Within The Fortin-Flamsteed Atlas of 1776: Taurus Poniatowski by
Anthony S. Drennan, Journal for the History of Astronomy, 2014.

Plate6 - Great Bear (Big Dipper)	plate 9 - Serpent Bearer, Serpent	plate 9 - Serpent Bearer, Serpent
plate 10 - Eagle, Antinous, Arrow, Little Fox, Delphin	plate 10 - Eagle, Antinous, Arrow, Little Fox, Delphin	plate 13 - Ram
plate 16 - Crab	plate 17 - Lion	plate 22 - Fishes
plate 23 - Whale	plate 28 - Southern Hemisphere	Ophiuchus - sizes Flamsteed vs Fortin vs Bode - Ophiuchus

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