Uranographia

The Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia of Johannes Hevelius 1690 is one of the big four star atlases to come out of Europe’s Golden Age of celestial cartography, a period which spanned roughly 1600 to 1800 and which was driven by technological advances in astronomical observation and printing techniques. The Hevelius atlas also introduced eleven new constellations, including Scutum Sobiescanum, Canes Venatici, Leo minor, Lynx, Sextans, Lacerta the lizard, and the fox with the goose, Vulpecula cum Anser. Four of his innovations were eventually subsumed into other constellations, but the seven just mentioned are all still in use today. Cetus the Whale It is one of the largest constellations known in classical civilizations, the figure was the giant sea monster that almost ate Andromeda