Hevelius’s depiction of Sextans
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Sextans was shown by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas under the name Sextans Uraniae, Urania being the Greek Muse of astronomy. Although an innovator in some ways, Hevelius was a traditionalist in others and showed the constellations in mirror-image form, as though seen on the surface of a celestial globe.
Image © Tartu Observatory Virtual Museum.
NOTE: This reproduction is from the third
edition of a facsimile of the Hevelius atlas, published by Fan
Press, Tashkent, in 1978. In this facsimile edition, the
diphthong in the name “Uraniae” has been removed.
The full name is shown in earlier editions of the facsimile and
on the Hevelius original.