Cosmographie
Title:
Cosmographie
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.
Creator:
Lascal, Emma
Date:
1820
Coverage:
[Paris]
Display Date:
[ca. 1820s]
Hover Text:
Emma Lascal — student
Published Item:
U
Item Index:
8
Item Sort:
1800s
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