A chart of the zodiac constellation Gemini with transparent ‘stars’
Pl. XXIXI. Les Gémeaux. The twins. Die Zwillinge.
Stuttgart: Wilhelm Nitzschke, c.1856. Lithographic star chart on blue card, pierced and backed with tissue to create a transparency. Sheet 225 x 285mm.
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A chart of the constellation Gemini, with the outline of the twins pricked out and with yellow shaped holes for the stars, so they are illuminated when the card is held up to the light. The stars are shaped to represent their apparent magnitude.
From Braun's 'Himmels-Atlas in transparente Karten'.