CLASSICAL STAR ATLASES

BAYER'S ARIES

Aries, the Ram, from Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. The head of Taurus, the Bull, appears at lower left, highlighted by the first mangintude star Aldebaran. The horizontal dashed line is the ecliptic. The broad dark band centered on the ecliptic shows the region in which the Moon and planets can be found.

Courtesy of the Rare Book Room and Special Collections Library of the University of Illinois