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What can be said about the remarkable effort Julius Schiller put into his Coelum Stellatum Christianum of 1627? Certainly his atlas stands as a unique accomplishment in the merging of astronomy, art and religion. While Schiller was not the first to assert that the constellations of antiquity should be challenged as highly inappropriate pagan icons, his predecessors had limited their reforms to the twelve signs of the Zodiac. Chapters 4 and 5 did the same, and essentially for the same reason—in recognition of how well-known and important the zodiacal constellations are to the general public.
“…Seek then, no learning from the starry men
Who follow with the optic glass
The whirling ways of stars that pass.”
—W. B. Yeats
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Mendillo, M. (2022). Responses—Theological and Astronomical. In: Saints and Sinners in the Sky: Astronomy, Religion and Art in Western Culture. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84270-3_6
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