Julius Schiller

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Title page of the Coelum Stellatum Christianum.

Julius Schiller (c. 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 which replaced pagan constellations with biblical and early Christian figures. Specifically, Schiller replaced the zodiacal constellations with the twelve apostles, the northern constellations by figures from the New Testament and the southern constellations by figures from the Old Testament.

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

Lucas Kilian was the artist who engraved the plates.

The star atlas was considered merely a curiosity and, in contrast to Bayer's Uranometria, did not gain wide acceptance.

External links

Schiller's 1627 Coelum Stellatum Christianum & Coelum Stellatum Christianum Concavum ("Christian Starry Heavens") - full digital facsimile, Linda Hall Library
Coelum Stellatum Christianum, Augusta 1627 da www.atlascoelestis.com

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

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Name	Schiller, Julius
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Short description	German astronomer
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Date of death	1627
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