URANIA’S MIRROR, 1832 Introduction
Card 32 illustrates twelve constellations: nine modern ones
(Corvus, Crater, Sextans [here Sextans Uraniæ],
Hydra, Lupus, Centaurus, Antlia [here Antlia Pneumatica], and
Pyxis [here Pyxis Nautica]),
the now-subdivided Argo Navis, and
the former constellations Noctua and
The Northern Constellations count approximately 1518 fixed stars.
The Zodiacal Constellations count approximately 1016 fixed stars.
The Southern Constellations count approximately 824 fixed stars carried forward.
“The principal object of the following little Treatise, and of the Cards to which it is an appendage, is to convey a general idea of the principal Fixed Stars in the Northern Hemisphere.”
“The stars are classed under the heads of the fixed stars (or suns) and planets.”
“How wonderful the power, wisdom, goodness, and magnificence, displayed in the formation and government of so vast a scale of creation, which is extended through the boundless regions of universal space,--an extent incomprehensible to all but the INFINITE MIND, and of which it has been aply said, “Its centre is every where, but its circumference no where.”