Urania's Mirror

Urania's Mirror; or, a view of the Heavens is a set of 32 astronomical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_chart" title="Star chart">star chart</a> cards, first published in November 1824.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Advertisement-1">[1]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Ridpath-2">[2]</a> They had illustrations based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jamieson" title="Alexander Jamieson">Alexander Jamieson</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Celestial_Atlas" title="A Celestial Atlas">A Celestial Atlas</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Ridpath-2">[2]</a> but the addition of holes punched in them allowed them to be held up to a light to see a depiction of the constellation's stars.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Advertisement-1">[1]</a> They were engraved by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Hall" title="Sidney Hall">Sidney Hall</a>, and were said to be designed by "a lady", but have since been identified as the work of the Reverend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Rouse_Bloxam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Rouse Bloxam (page does not exist)">Richard Rouse Bloxam</a>, an assistant master at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_School" title="Rugby School">Rugby School</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Hingley239-3">[3]</a>

The cover of the box-set showed a depiction of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania" title="Urania">Urania</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse" title="Muse">muse</a> of astronomy, and came with a book entitled A Familiar Treatise on Astronomy... written as an accompaniment.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Ridpath-2">[2]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%27s_Mirror#cite_note-Hingley238-4">[4]</a> P. D. Hingley, the researcher who solved the mystery of who designed the cards a hundred and seventy years after their publication, considers them amongst the most attractive star chart cards of the many produced in the early 19th century.