Medium: Intaglio with hand coloringEdition: 5/40Dimensions: Plate 13.75x8.75; Paper 18.75x13" Astronomer Pierre-Charles Le Monnier added a few constellations to the southern sky between 1776 and 1792. He published a paper…
Medium: Intaglio with hand coloring Edition: 5/40 Dimensions: Plate 13.75x8.75; Paper 18.75x13"
Astronomer Pierre-Charles Le Monnier added a few constellations to the southern sky between 1776 and 1792. He published a paper containing amongst others a constellation of a bird resembling a rock thrush known as the solitaire of the Philippines. Historian R.H. Allen disputes the identity of the bird, claiming it is similar to a Dodo. To confuse the bird's identity further the British scientist Thomas Young renamed the constellation the Mockingbird on his star map of 1806 and on other maps astronomer Alexander Jamieson changed it in 1822 into Noctua, the Night Owl.
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