Sagittarius, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-height 2177 Georges Carpentier

Georges Carpentier

a disorderly mass of pedestrians

the church was designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor

2nd August 1992

horses and a carriage in the foreground

Sagittarius, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-height 2177 Georges CarpentierThe constellation Sagittarius (the archer or centaur). Map 8 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