Taurus, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:XS: 25 x 20cm 10th July 1976

10th July 1976

Mick Jagger and Brian Jones

Side view of a variety of Pilot fish [Naucrates ductor]

'Old Shooes for Some Broomes'

FA Cup quarter final

Taurus, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:XS: 25 x 20cm 10th July 1976The constellation Taurus (the bull), with part of Orion (the hunter). Map 2 from John Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis, or star atlas (London, 1729). This was the first celestial atlas based on telescopic observations. Published posthumously, it was the work of the Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed FRS (1646 1719), and used the catalogue of 2935 stars in his 1725 Historia Coelestis Britannica. Original: engraving. 1729