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title: Coma Berenices
author: Harvard University
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10743/coma-berenices/
format: machine-readable-alternate
updated: 1970-01-01
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# Coma Berenices

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## Image File

[![Coma Berenices](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/10743.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/10743.jpg)

## Image Caption

On this celestial globe, made by the Flemish cartographer Gerard Mercator (Louvain, 1551), the Coma Berenices (here called “Cincinnus”) is shown between the constellations Boötes (“Bubulcus”) and Virgo; the globe projects the constellations from the outside perspective (in reverse position from what is seen from earth). Photograph courtesy of the Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

## Cite This Work

### APA
University, H. (2019, May 21). Coma Berenices. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10743/coma-berenices/>
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### MLA
University, Harvard. "Coma Berenices." *World History Encyclopedia*, 21 May 2019, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/10743/coma-berenices/>.

## License & Copyright

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