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Notice: All inserted images are from Linda Hall Library site
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Out of This World -
The Golden Age of the Celestial Atlas either from
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Felice Stoppa, who maintains the fantastic site www.atlascoeletis.com, dedicated to Celestial Maps and Atlases, asserts in his book Atlas Coelestis - Il cielo stellato nella scienza e nell'arte, pag. 50, that in J. Flamsteed's Atlas Coelestis M31 is "Fist non stellar object who appears in a celestial map".
I don't agree with him.
Apart from a 1500's Dutch map (according to by R.H. Allen) and drawings from Arabian manuscripts (see K.G. Jones, Messier's Nebulae & Star Clusters, pag 121 and Abd-al-Rahman Al Sufi)) , M31 is reported in Coelum Stellatum Christianum, (and in the associated Coelum stellatum Christianum concavum), of Julius Schiller printed on 1627 in August .
In the Schiller Christianised Version of the sky, Andromeda is the constellation no. XX,
or the Sepulcher, the burial place of Jesus Christ in Jeruzalem, Sepulchri Triumphatoris XPI.
M31 is the "Star" n. 27 ("Nebula ibidem ad Boeream ")
in the page catalogue and on the map it is drowned with a stellar symbol different from the others..
Refer to following imagines, from the site of Linda Hall Library.
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