Poeticon Astronomicon

Among the first printed renditions of the Greek (Ptolemaic) constellations was the Clarissimi Viri Iginii Poeticon Astronomiconwhich included almost all these constellations, though without great accuracy or detail. Its focus seems to have been less about navigation/astronomy as for the mythological figures presented in the sky.

No coordinate systems indicated, as was already in place at that time, these woodcuts serve a purely aesthetic purpose, and convey little information about the actual night sky. Some characters are even rendered in contemporary clothes rather than idealized mythological attire.

 
By comparison, Hercules’ cock must be at least 8 light years long. Just FYI.

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

Herbal Riot

A Scrapbook of Sin

Unearthly Delights

A Scrapbook of Sin

worth effort

A Scrapbook of Sin

Mirrors at Home..

A Scrapbook of Sin

Memento Mori

A Scrapbook of Sin

𖦹

A Scrapbook of Sin

Death & Mysticism

A Scrapbook of Sin

A Scrapbook of Sin

BLACK GOAT

A Scrapbook of Sin

%d bloggers like this: