"There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book."
Evelyn Waugh
A young British boy sits reading outside the ruins of a bookshop that suffered Luftwaffe bomb damage during the Blitz. London, 8th October 1940
For most of history we didn't have the technology to photograph the stars.
But our ancestors across the world studied the night sky for millennia and wrote down what they saw.
So let's explore the beautiful history of celestial maps: