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Hand-coloured 1668 celestial chart of zodiac constellations with a comet path, lion, crab, serpent and Orion.

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Figura observat Cometicar Gedani facta. ad Communicat. Hevelianam Pertinens, Stanisław Lubieniecki (1668). Via artnap.com

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This hand-coloured celestial chart shows the constellations Virgo, Leo, Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries, Orion, Hydra and Canis Major, with a dashed comet trajectory and gold-tinted stars arranged along a latitude and longitude grid. The print bears the Latin inscription about comet observations at Gdańsk made for Hevelius, and is attributed to Stanisław Lubieniecki, dated 1668.