Pegasus is one of constellation with the least variation in appearance. Pegasus as we know today was depicted almost similar with the original Pegasus, although we can see the decreasing wing size.
Sources said that Equuleus was first introduced by the Greeks as Ippou Protome (“bust of a horse”), but it is hard to find a Grecian image of Equuleus, so I’m not really sure. Plus there was the third horse introduced by the Muslims. So… could this be the original Equuleus?
Farnese Atlas (around 200 BC) has Pegasus in it but no Equuleus. Source: Athena’s Web Weekly Column
Leiden Aratea (816 AD). Eeeeek. Source: Leiden Aratea
Limoges Aratea (early 11th century). Equuleus not apparent in this book. Source: Limoges Aratea
9th century Assyrian scholar Hunayn ibn Ishaq. Equuleus was not apparent, but there is a constellation al Faras al Tamm made out of eastern wing of Cygnus, Pegasus’ chest, Equuleus, and Lacerta’ tail. I personally think this is Equuleus, although one sources claim it is a completely different constellation. source: Kitab Suwar al Kawakib
Hyginus’ Poeticon Astronomicon (1482). No Equuleus either. Source: Naval Oceanography Portal
Johannes Regiomontanus’s Kalendarius (1512). Not sure with this, but it seems that the complete Pegasus is in fact Equuleus (mentioned under the name fullen, a name for Equuleus in German). Source: Kalendarius teütsch Maister Joannis Küngspergers
A page from Peter Apian (1532) depicting Pegasus with a bridle. Noot sure if there’s Equuleus in this one. Source: Deutsche Fotothek
Mercator Globes (1551). To me, the earliest representation of Equuleus as a bust of horse. Source: The Mercator Globes
Zacharias Bornmann’s Astra (1596). Source: Astra
Bayer’s Uranometria (1624). Source: USNO and Rare Maps
Hevelius’s in his Uranographia (1687) depicts Aquarius’s head encroaching onto the heads of Pegasus and Equuleus. This might have significance: To compensate the father of Ganymedes, King Laomedon of Troy, for abducting his son Zeus gave him two horses. Source: Rare Maps
John Flamsteed Atlas Coelistis (1776) has an out of proportion Pegasus, very usual of his map. With his map, seems like Pegasus is losing his wings, his wings becoming smaller, almost tucked in to its body. Source: Rare Maps
Johann Bode’s Uranographia (1801). Source: Tartu Observatory Virtual Museum
Alexander Jamieson’s A Celestial Atlas (1822). Source: Wikipedia
Urania’s Mirror (1825). Source: Selefa
Pegasus and Equuleus cloth from Saint Seiya (1986). Source: Saint Seiya Wiki
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