The Summer Sky Atlas — A Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings Size:24x36 as if the climb itself

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The Summer Sky Atlas — A Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings Size:24x36 as if the climb itselfThe Summer Sky Atlas a Victorian Map of Celestial Wanderings charts the warm month constellations as a 19th century stargazer would have traced them Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila wheeling across the firmament in inked latitudes. It is less a map than an ephemeris of longing, the summer heavens pinned like specimens to the page. About the Source Bella Frye sources celestial prints from 19th century astronomical atlases and selenographic studies the era when