Constellations
These images show large-scale engravings of imaginative views of constellations from Uranographia, a volume in the University of Michigan Library Special Collections.
Johann Elert Bode, Uranographia, the Description of the Stars in Twenty Copper-plates Engraved According to the most Recent and Accurate Observations of Astronomers. Berlin: published by the author, 1801.
This volume is approximately 22" x 26" with each engraving a double-page spread. Capturing the fine detail of oversize objects requires multiple overlapping exposures that are then stitched together to create a single digital file capable of extreme enlargement without loss of detail.
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