Lacaille’s Pictor
Lacaille’s depiction of the
artist’s easel and palette was first published under the
name le Chevalet et la Palette in 1756 on his planisphere of
the southern stars; the name was Latinized to Equuleus
Pictorius on the second edition in 1763. This illustration
comes from a copy of Lacaille’s map published in the Atlas Céleste
of Jean Fortin. (Image © Ian Ridpath.)
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