Leiden Aratea (816 AD). Source: Leiden Aratea
Limoges Aratea (early 11th century). Source: Limoges Aratea
9th century Assyrian scholar Hunayn ibn Ishaq. source: Kitab Suwar al Kawakib
Hyginus’ Poeticon Astronomicon (1482). She has a really weird thing going on there. Source: Naval Oceanography Portal
Johannes Regiomontanus’s Kalendarius (1512). What’s that?? Source: Kalendarius teütsch Maister Joannis Küngspergers
Mercator Globes (1551). Source: The Mercator Globes
Zacharias Bornmann’s Astra (1596). Source: Astra
Bayer’s Uranometria (1624), below is John Bevis reconstruction in 1750s . Source: Kuuke
Philippe La Hire, Planisphere Celeste (1705). Clearly inspired by Bayer. Source: Wikimedia Commons
Johann Bode’s Uranographia (1801). Source: Uranographia
Alexander Jamieson’s A Celestial Atlas (1822). Source: Wikipedia
Urania’s Mirror (1825). Source: Wikipedia
Modern black Andromeda, princess of the Kingdom of Kush. Pose inspired from Bayer’s version. Source: Kuuke
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