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		However, use of the word "atlas" for a bound collection of maps was not to come into use until the 1595 publication of Gerardus Mercator's "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi..." (Atlas, or Description of the Universe) (Duisburg, 1585-1595).
		The origin of the term atlas is a common source of misconception, perhaps because two different mythical figures named 'Atlas' are associated with mapmaking.
		King Atlas, a mythical King of Mauretania in Libya, was, according to legend, a wise philosopher, mathematician and astronomer who supposedly made the first celestial globe.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Atlas (1101 words)

	Atlas (cartography) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		However, use of the word "atlas" for a bound collection of maps was not to come into use until the posthumous publication of Gerardus Mercator’s "Atlas, Sive Cosmographicae Meditationes De Fabrica Mundi..." (Atlas, or Description of the Universe) (Duisburg, 1585-1595).
		Atlas was punished by Zeus and made to bear the weight of the heavens and earth on his back.
		It was this Atlas that Mercator was referring to when he first used the name 'Atlas', and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Atlas (697 words)

	Atlas
		In Greek mythology, Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus and the nymph Clymene, and brother of Prometheus.
		Atlas was turned to stone by Perseus using Medusa's head in the place where the Atlas mountains now stand, after he threatened Perseus when wanting to speak to his father Zeus about the punishment that had fallen upon him.
		Atlas continues to be a commonly used icon in western culture (and advertising), as a symbol of strength or stoic endurance.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Atlas.html (587 words)

	Titans
		Atlas was the son of the Titan Iapetus by the Oceanid Clymene or Asia.
		Atlas was also possibly the father of the Hesperides (Daughters of the Evening Star), the guardian of the golden apples in the garden of Hesperides.
		Prometheus was the brother of Atlas, Menoetius and Epimetheus.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/titans.html (4161 words)

	Atlas Resources & Information - world atlas
		In free atlas works of art, this Atlas is represented as carrying the heavens canada atlas atlas copco or the terrestrial globe on his shoulders.
		The first publisher road atlas to associate the Titan Atlas with a group of maps was Lafreri, on the title-page to "Tavole Moderne Di Geografia De La Maggior Parte historical atlas Del Mondo Di Diversi Autori...".
		It was this Atlas that Mercator shipes atlas was referring to when he first atlas lathe used the name 'Atlas', hazel atlas on ebay and he included a depiction of the King on the title-page.
	www.bizhisto.com /Biz-Retail-Companies-A---Ba/Atlas.html (780 words)

	Mysterious Monday: The long lost star catalog of Hipparchus - Message Board - ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sitting atop the broad shoulders of a seven-foot statue known as the Farnese Atlas is a sky globe depicting the nighttime sky.
		Providing more evidence that the constellation figures on the Farnese Atlas were based on a star catalog is that the accuracy is within 3.5 degrees — which would not be possible based on the simple verbal descriptions provided by Aratus or Eudoxus, which only have accuracy of about 8 degrees.
		The Farnese Atlas, dating to 150 AD, is a well known Roman copy of a Greek statue, and depicts 41 constellations, the celestial equator, tropics, and ecliptic.
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		Atlas was sentenced by Zeus to hold up the sky, and the globe is a depiction of the night sky as seen from Earth, with pictures of Aries the ram, Cygnus the swan, Hercules the hero and other animals and people representing 41 constellations.
		The statue, known as the Farnese Atlas, is the oldest surviving pictorial record of Western constellations.
		He also found that the Farnese Atlas globe agreed in detail with the only surviving work of Hipparchus, a commentary on Aratus and Eudoxes, an earlier astronomer who provided the basis for Aratus' poem.
	www.phil.pku.edu.cn /forum/viewtopic.php?t=2407 (922 words)

	History of Constellation and Star Names
		Atlas is bearded, has a cloak draped over his left shoulder, and is holding the globe with both hands.
		The name Farnese Atlas was gained from its acquirement by Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in the early 16th-century (and its exhibition in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome).
		One modern estimate dates the statue of Atlas to 73 BCE and (from the position of the constellation figures to the globe's equinox) dates the constellation figures to circa 370 BCE.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~gtosiris/page11-9a.html (1321 words)

	Farnese Atlas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Farnese Atlas is a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of Atlas kneeling with a globe weighing heavily on his shoulders.
		The name Farnese Atlas reflects its acquisition by Alessandro Cardinal Farnese in the early 16th century, and its subsequent exhibition in the Villa Farnese.
		Atlas labors under the weight because he had been sentenced by Zeus to hold up the sky.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Farnese_Atlas (436 words)

	Discovery Channel :: News :: Lost Ancient Star Catalogue Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Known as the Farnese Atlas, the seven-foot-tall marble statue depicting the mythical Titan carrying the Earth on his shoulder is a Roman copy from the 2nd century A.D. of a Greek original dating to before the birth of Christ.
		The statue is peculiar as the two-foot-wide globe carried by a bearded Atlas crouched down on one knee is covered with 41 star constellations placed against a grid of circles, including the celestial equator, the tropics, the colures, the ecliptic, the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle.
		Moreover, the positioning of the constellation figures on the Farnese Atlas has a accuracy of about 2 degrees, impossible to be achieved by simple verbal descriptions.
	dsc.discovery.com /news/briefs/20050117/loststars.html (693 words)

	Atlas (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Atlas (King), the mythical King of Mauretania, who was a renowned scholar, astronomer, and geographer; "atlas" became a name for a collection of maps in his honor.
		Atlas Beetle, a rhinoceros beetle (Dynastinae) in the genus Chalcosoma
		Meir Atlas (1848–1926), Rabbi of Shavel in Lithuania and one of the founders of the Telz Yeshiva
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Atlas_(disambiguation) (893 words)

	Discovery of The Lost Star Catalog of Hipparchus on The Farnese Atlas - Press Release
		This marble statue shows the Titan Atlas kneeling on one knee while hold a large globe (65 cm in diameter) on one shoulder.
		In all, I have the very confident conclusion that the constellation figures on the Farnese Atlas are a depiction of Hipparchus' lost star catalog.
		Compare the position of the Ram's horn being exactly on the meridian line (the colure) on the back view of the Farnese Atlas with the date around 125 BC when the Ram's horn actually was at the same position.
	www.phys.lsu.edu /farnese (528 words)

	inQuiry Attic - November, 1999
		There is written evidence that proves that the ancient world was familiar with the scientific principles necessary for depicting the celestial and terrestrial spheres, and the oldest known surviving ancient globe is the Farnese Atlas, now at the National Museum of Naples.
		The Farnese Atlas is a decorative celestial globe, about 25 inches in diameter, that shows the outline of constellations against a coordinate system.
		The statue of Atlas is dated 73 B.C.; the position of the constellation figures to the globe's equinox date the globe itself to around 370 B.C. (Naturally, the ancient globes and models were representative of the astronomical ideas held at that period of time.)
	sln.fi.edu /qa99/attic11 (604 words)

	USATODAY.com - Old meets new in the cosmos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		SAN DIEGO — An ancient star atlas lost for centuries and a cutting-edge atlas of the modern universe were unveiled Tuesday by scientists at the American Astronomical Society meeting.
		Called the Farnese Atlas, the 7-foot-tall marble statue depicts one of the titans of Greek mythology, Atlas, holding a 2-foot-wide globe on his shoulders.
		Inscribed on the Farnese Atlas, he reports, is the lost star catalogue of Hipparchus, one of the great Greek astronomers who lived around 140 B.C. on the island of Rhodes.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2005-01-11-atlas_x.htm (472 words)

	The Farnese Globe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A translation by Hugh Thurston of the analysis of the Farnese globe by Georg Thiele, from his book Antike Himmelsbilder (1898).
		Thiele’s photographs of the plaster cast of the Farnese Atlas and globe.
		With the Farnese and Mainz globe s, these are the only three known globes surviving from antiquity.
	www.csit.fsu.edu /~dduke/farnese (187 words)

	LSU researcher solves ancient astronomy mystery
		The Farnese Atlas is a Roman statue, dating to the second century, that depicts the Titan Atlas holding a sky globe on his shoulder.
		Schaefer has discovered that the constellation figures on the Farnese Atlas are an accurate rendition of Hipparchus' star catalog.
		Schaefer made a comparison between the Farnese Atlas and all ancient constellation descriptions, including those of Ptolemy and other ancient astronomers and thinkers, such as Hipparchus, Aratus, Eratosthenes, Eudoxus and Homer.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-01/lsu-lrs011305.php (1124 words)

	Ian Ridpath’s Star Tales - Star Maps
		This sculpture of Atlas from the second century AD features a celestial globe engraved with the constellations known to the ancient Greeks.
		In the Museo Nazionale, Naples, is a marble statue of Atlas holding on his shoulders not the Earth but a globe of the heavens on which the constellations are depicted in this mirror-image way (see picture at right).
		The sculpture is called the Farnese Atlas, after Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (later Pope Paul III) who acquired it in the early 16th century and exhibited it in the Farnese Palace in Rome.
	www.ianridpath.com /startales/startales2a.htm (750 words)

	Orbis Quintus » Blog Archive » more on the Farnese Atlas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas.
		For centuries, the 7-foot marble figure of the mythological Atlas has bent in stoic agony with a sphere of the cosmos crushing his shoulders.
		He knew something of the Farnese Atlas, named for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, who purchased it in the 16th century.
	orbis-quintus.net /blog/?p=1113 (2214 words)

	Statue linked to ancient astronomer’s lore - Space News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A Roman statue of Atlas — the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders — holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, a historian says.
		The key is in the constellations depicted on the globe Atlas is carrying.
		The statue in question is known as the Farnese Atlas, a 7-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) marble work that resides in the Farnese Collection in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/6815077 (559 words)

	Ancient Astronomer's Work Found On Roman Statue
		(Reuters) - A Roman statue of Atlas -- the mythical titan who carried the heavens on his shoulders -- holds clues to the long-lost work of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus, an astronomical historian said on Tuesday.
		The statue in question is known as the Farnese Atlas, a 7-foot tall marble work which resides in the Farnese Collection in the National Archeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
		What makes it important to scientists is not the titan's muscular form but the globe he supports: carved constellations adorn its surface in exactly the locations Hipparchus would have seen in his day, suggesting that the sculptor based the globe on the ancient astronomer's star catalog, which no modern eyes have seen.
	www.rense.com /general61/workf.htm (386 words)

	Atlas Pictures
		One of the best known statues representing him is the one called Atlante Farnese (or Farnese Atlas), which has this name because it is in the Farnese collection of works of art.
		Recently, professor Bradley E. Schaefer from the Louisiana University discovered that the celestial sphere carried by the titan is an exact representation of a long lost star catalog, belonging to Hipparchus, a great astronomer of the antiquity.
		In the following imagine, Atlas is holding the world on his shoulders (but we know that in fact he held the heavens on his shoulders).
	www.greek-gods-and-goddesses.com /atlas-pictures.html (132 words)

	The Undoctored Past » Hipparchos Star Catalogue discovered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Hipparchus was one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity and his star catalogue was the first in the world, as well as the most influential.
		Schaefer has discovered that the constellation figures on the Farnese Atlas are an accurate rendition of Hipparchus’; star catalogue.
		For example, Schaefer said, Hipparchus’; star catalogue was described in the work “Almagest” by the influential Greek astronomer and geographer Ptolemy, who lived around A.D. 85 to A.D. The Farnese Atlas – roughly seven feet tall and made of marble – is now in the Farnese Collection in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
	undoctored.co.uk /journal/?p=42 (1146 words)

	Farnese Atlas Celestial Globe
		The only large celestial globe evidently surviving from antiquity is that in the Naples Archaeological Museum, held upon the shoulders of the statue of Atlas, known as the Farnese Atlas.
		A scrupulous scholarly history, covering centuries of researches into the Farnese globe, was provided in 1987 by Vladimiro Valerio in Globusfreund.
		[C] He emphasized the galactic circle, a fragment of which may survive on the Farnese globe (at Cygnus), a hitherto-mysterious line-segment which DR revealed (2005/4/1) exhibits both the direction and the location of the Milky Way.
	www.dioi.org /ggg.htm (583 words)

	Statue Hid Hipparchus Star Catalog - Physics Today April 2005
		Since Alexandria's great library was ransacked 1600 years ago, astronomers have searched in vain for a copy of the Hipparchus star catalog, the earliest sky map known to have used a coordinate system.
		The two-meter-tall statue, called the Farnese Atlas, was unearthed in the 1400s and is in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.
		For years historians had speculated that the globe on the giant's shoulders, which is marked with 41 Greek constellations and with lines indicating the celestial equator, tropics, and ecliptic, contained an accurate sky map.
	www.aip.org /pt/vol-58/iss-4/p27b.html (496 words)

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