Hevelius’s depiction of Lynx
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The animal shown by Hevelius on his star atlas Firmamentum Sobiescianum (above) did not look much like the tufty-eared, medium-sized member of the cat family that we know as a lynx, but neither did the illustrations in Bode’s Uranographia or Flamsteed’s Atlas Coelestis. As with all Hevelius’s figures, it is shown in reverse, as it would appear on a celestial globe. Image © Tartu Observatory Virtual Museum.