"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
Some neat artwork from the U.S. Naval Observatory, including high resolution scans of some works by Hevelius, Flamsteed, and Bayer. Some of them are very, very cool.
[tags]Astronomy,Public Domain Images[/tags]
Addendum: Want a PDF containing all the images from the Jamieson star catalog? Your wish is my command. Caution: it’s 25 megabytes.
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