Historic Cassiopeia

 

Hyginus’ Poeticon Astronomicon (1482). The Milky Way flows from her right hand (the constellation is located in the Milky Way). Source: Naval Oceanography Portal

Johannes Regiomontanus’s Kalendarius (1512). Source: Kalendarius teütsch Maister Joannis Küngspergers

 

17th century reproduction of Tycho Brahe’s plate (1572) with the Tycho’s Supernova (depicted here in the stand of the throne) which appears in the 16th century. Here she held a palm instead of squirting milky water from her hand. Source: Wikipedia

 

Gerard Mercator’s Mercator Globes (1551). Source: The Mercator Globes

 

Zacharias Bornmann in his Astra (1596) shows her throne with a canopy. Source: Astra

 

Bayer (1603). The supernova is shown here even though it has disappeared. source: Courtney Seligman

Philippe La Hire, Planisphere Celeste (1705). Source: Wikimedia Commons