Monoceros, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code DCA_116967 designed by Robert Mylne

designed by Robert Mylne

Plate 217 from chapter 7 of Gleanings of natural history

Muhammad Ali at his training camp ahead of his fight with Richard Dunn in Munich

Original: collodion print

Semen alatum magnificutum

Monoceros, from John Flamsteed's 'Atlas Coelestis' mb-code DCA_116967 designed by Robert MylneThe 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: