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Image: Johan Doppelmayr's celestial chart of Pavo and Indus

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Description: Constellations Pavo and Indus, of a chart of southern celestial hemisphere (Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis...) from 1730
Title: Johan Doppelmayr's celestial chart of Pavo and Indus
Credit: Original publication: Published in Atlas Coelestis in quo Mundus Spectabilis..., Nuremberg, Germany, in 1730 (or 1742) Immediate source: I own this copy of the map (Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe in quo Fixarum loca secundum Eclipticae ductum ad anum 1730...) and took this photograph myself.
Author: Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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