Emma Lascal — student
- Creator(s):
- Lascal, Emma
- Title:
- Cosmographie
- Publication/Origin:
- [Paris]: [ca. 1820s]
- Description:
- Bound in a lovely pink, gilt-edged and stamped glazed paper binding, schoolgirl Emma Lascal’s beautifully observed and sensitively drawn cosmography report summarizes the astronomical knowledge of her day. Nineteenth-century advances in the telescope resulted in a heightened popular interest in astronomy across Europe. Lascal, a student at the Convent of Notre Dame in Paris, created this manuscript for her “2eme classe.” She illustrates the phases of the moon, the heavenly constellations, and a comparison of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems.
- Citation:
- Lascal, Emma, Cosmographie, [Paris]: [ca. 1820s], Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed June 22, 2025, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4091