Monoceros, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:S: 30 x 25cm London to Brighton Emancipation Run

London to Brighton Emancipation Run

Inscribed: 'View of the Island of Gaunsah Lout with the Observatory and Encampment

The light is shown as lenticular in shape and each diagram is marked with lines of the equator

View with a plaque underneath

Monoceros, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' Size:S: 30 x 25cm London to Brighton Emancipation RunThe constellation Monoceros (the unicorn), with Canis Minor, Canis major, Orion (the hunter) and Lepus (the hare). Map 13 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: