Category Archives: Sky Tonight

Johann Kepler, De stella nova in pede serpentarii (Prague, 1606) Kepler’s star map shows the constellations of Ophiuchus (the Serpent Handler), Sagittarius and Scorpius. The Milky Way runs diagonally down from the left, and the “ecliptic,” or annual path of … Continue reading →

Urania’s Mirror (London 1825), a boxed set of 32 cards; with Jehoshaphat Aspin, A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy (London 1825), 2d ed. Constellation figures, as in this boxed set of 32 constellation cards, make learning the constellations easy.  Each card … Continue reading →

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poems (London, 1843), 2 vols. “Many a night I saw the Pleiades rising thro’ the mellow shade, glitter like a swarm of fire-flies Tangled in a silver braid.” “Locksley Hall,” 5th couplet.