In 1587, a Milanese scholar named Urbano Monte created a huge map of the world, drawn with meticulous and colorful detail on 60 sheets of paper. Monte specified that the sheets should be assembled and ...

In 1502, as Europeans hungrily looked to the vast new continent across the Atlantic Ocean, innovative maps of these unfamiliar territories became objects of power and intrigue. Alberto Cantino, an ...

THIS planisphere measures 5½ in. by 5 in. and can be carried in the pocket without the slightest inconvenience. It shows how the stars appear for each month on any selected day or hour to an observer ...

Some 1,500 years after stargazers began using rotating star maps to track celestial bodies’ journeys across the night sky, David Chandler figured out how to make the tool better. One summer in the ...

The moon is growing brighter and will be full on Wednesday. If it's clear, a bright moon often makes it easier to recognize the more prominent constellations because the light hides the faint stars.

This stone slab with the carvings of a planisphere, a chart of constellations, was made in 1396 by 11 astronomers including ...

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Print of Chinese star map on thin paper; Print of Chinese star map on thin paper, published by John Reeves Esquire at Canton, China, with pamphlet (19pp), 1819. Print of Chinese star map on thin paper ...

This is a hot little quartz watch with a built-in planisphere which shows you the constellations of the northern hemisphere on a glow-in-the-dark face. Not bad for a $50 watch. It even has a rubber ...