Julius Schiller

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Julius Schiller (ca. 1580 - 1627) was a lawyer from Augsburg, Germany, who like his fellow citizen and colleague Johann Bayer published a star atlas in celestial cartography.

In the year of his death, Schiller, with Bayer's assistance, published the star atlas Coelum Stellatum Christianum in an attempt to compile a "Christian" star atlas. This new atlas replaced pagan constellations with biblical and early Christian figures.

Specifically, Schiller replaced the zodiacal constellations with the twelve apostles, the constellations north of the zodiac by figures from the New Testament and the constellations south of the zodiac by figures from the Old Testament.

The planets, sun and moon were also replaced by biblical figures.

Another popular star atlas was Bayer's Uranometria.

This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article of 9 September 2005.


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